FitMama

How you think, feel and behave in relationship to money.   This is your money mindset.   It's a relationship.   Every interaction with money is like a relationship with a person. We talk about how our relationship with money is directly affecting our health.   We all have money stories.   Come tune in.   We talk about scarcity and what happens behind the scenes that we don't always know about – an...

This episode is chalk full of incredible dialogue about relationships, communication, and mindset! We dive deep FitMama. Dr. Shyamala has so many great explanations, examples, and evidence she shares around the idea of high-performance relationships, what they are and how to have them in your life. Would you say your relationships can be considered "high performance?"   Dr. Shyamala from Kiru Well...

FitMama, I jump into this one head first asking where in your life you are wanting to take a stand for yourself. I truly believe we are not taught to do this and not taught that it is ok to stand for what we truly believe in, or what's best for ourselves. I was always worrying what other people would think of me if stood up for something I believed in and that held me back. Now, as a mom, wife, fr...

This week's guest is Nikki Bergen, Pilates teacher and creator of The Belle Method and the Bump Method.   We talk about societal pressures for moms and women, and how she went from being a dancer to being a international sought after fitness expert focused on safe, effective core workouts during pregnancy and postpartum.   She begins her Pilates work with teaching women how to deeply activate thei...

I chat about the where, when, how,  what,  who and WHY in this episode all designed to help you with your own personal busy mom workout schedule.   I  share the 3 most important things and discuss them in detail, things such as:   What does a home workout involve? How do I choose strength or cardio, which one is better? What other aerobic things can I do, I hate running?   Why makes HIIT so effect...

What an honor to have with me on this podcast, Dr. Marisol, Naturopathic Doctorand poop expert helps us understand the role of the gut, hormones and overall health in this detailed episode.   She shares with us the ancient practice of using a Castor Oil Pack and she goes into all the benefits of Castor Oil topically and the use of her organic cotton flannel mask and body wrap.   I myself have done...

This week I share my acronym PESTS for the things that stand in our way from our best in this life. Whether it's our fitness routine (or lack thereof), food choices or the way we spend our days to our relationships and to how we show up in this world.   We set a plan, we have a backup, we tell our husband/wife/friend to wake us up, support us, we end up not sleeping well, the kids have the flu, ou...

Dr. Shalini Bhat is dedicated functional medicine professional with a decade of experience in the health and wellness field. She is the founder of the The Movement Boutique in Toronto , a next generation wellness clinic and designer of programs that are designed to help people achieve optimal wellness through moving, feeling and looking better. She has designed a workout method, a treatment method...

This week I am diving into the diet culture and what exactly it is. So many of us don't realize how we are perpetuating and playing into this idea that "thin is in" or "overweight is unhealthy."   When I looked up weight-ism, I found this definition:   "This bias, judgment, stigma, prejudice, and discrimination toward individuals based on their size, shape, or weight is known as  weightism . Most...

Get Perspective FitMama! This is what I have been talking about lately with so many FitMamas I work with. What you tell yourself makes a huge difference and I go into details how. These are some Weak/Weasel words Dave Asprey of Bulletproof movement says: Can't Need Bad Try I have to say I wholeheartedly agree Stop using these words FitMama!! This episode I go into Will power again and how it's lik...

Dr. Elizabeth Cherevaty ND, RAc is a naturopathic doctor with a special place in her heart for integrative fertility, women's and children's health. As the founding director of Two Rivers Health, Dr. Liz is the founder of Fempowered Global™, a guided program for women leaders who want to increase their feminine leadership success. Through her clinic, she's also the creator of the Well-Conceived Fe...

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Viktor E. Frankl This week's episode is the last of the four part series all about freedom - whatever that means to you. I do a deep dive on the Viktor Frankl quote – who speaks on freedom in his book, Man's Search For Meaning after surviving a Nazi...

This week I jump right into talking about our freedom to create a feeling without having to actually do, be or have the thing we think will give us the feeling. I talk about the freedom of buying bigger clothes and the freedom of not caring what size things actually are. Are you too preoccupied with superficial things that you're missing out on the freedom of being comfortable? Starting to dissipa...

This week's focus on freedom has to do with giving yourself freedom and permission to feel the feelings you want to feel without waiting for a certain "time" in the future. We all think that x or y needs to be "achieved" before we can feel the feelings that we want, and it simply isn't the case. I'm talking about things that nurture your feelings of freedom, peace, calm and space. How you can feel...

In this episode is delving into the topic of freedom and what freedom really means to me. I talk self-control, idealizing and fantasizing about freedom, what my earliest goals as a human were, and how freedom can both cripple you and set you free. I get into the power struggle that lies in a mere moment of fear vs. freedom. Can someone make you feel a certain way? Do you let it happen? Are you giv...

This episode is a call to you FitMama to dive into your frustration, anger or resentment towards others (okay, maybe towards yourself) and peel back the layers to see where you may in fact not be honoring others at all because you're not honoring you. We so often think we are "doing everything for everyone," or it "always goes this way," but we don't see the role we play in the whole event. I teac...

This week I go into discussing details of your default setting. Most of us are set to a negative as an adaptation in life to keep us feeling safe. Want something new? Set a new default mode. You can reprogram what you are seeing each day by choosing different things to notice and focus on. I talk Self-Medication to Self-Meditation and self-compassion that is needed to break through the blocks to f...

FitMama, this week, I talk about your thoughts, words, behaviours, desires and what you really deserve…and why you crave the opposite of what you say you want. Tune in for this clarifying message to yourself about what you really do deserve, at then end of a long day. After doing everything for everyone else. How do you treat yourself? Treat – is it a food/drink/bath/night out and does it feel GOO...

This week on the FitMama Podcast, I am introducing you to one of my all time favourite people, the Pain Freedom Expert herself, Janna Arsenault. Janna has been a literal godsend to me and there was a time I didn't think I would ever get over my back pain caused by an injury from a weak core that I wasn't taking care of or protecting properly in a time of need (postpartum). What was even deeper tha...

What does emotional fitness look like? Do you think you are emotionally fit? I do an investigation into what this means for me, and how this is connected to our daily experience. Whether we go to the gym or not, or fuel our bodies well more depends on our emotions and mindset and how we approach each moment we enter into. Often we are in our heads about what things should and shouldn't look like a...

This week's episode is with Marianne Ryan, a pelvic floor physical therapist and an awarding winning author of Baby Bod, a Groundbreaking Program for Pregnant and Postpartum women that bridges the gap between medical care and fitness advice. As you know, I am always encouraging FitMamas to go to Pelvic Floor Physio, and Marianne has been doing this for over 30 years. She recently did an interview...

FitMama, we have all been there before when we know something needs to get done, but we find everything else BUT that to do. Now, I want to clarify, I live by the statement that time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time, so enjoy it!! But identify where it is enjoyment for enjoyments sake or where is it procrastination and avoidance? I share some food for thought that will get you digging deeper i...

As a Naturopathic Doctor and Integrative Fertility Expert, Dr. Janice Davie helps couples to optimize their health in order to optimize their fertility, reduce their stress and to feel empowered along their fertility journey.  Her mission is to improve the health of our next generation through preconception and perinatal care.  Dr. Janice Davie maintains a local practice in Amherstburg and Tecumse...

This episode speaks to finding the awe in something that may feel initially like a world-ending diagnosis. Dr. Theresa Lyons is a mom first and a scientist second. She has brought the latest autism science and research into her most important role to help not only her own daughter diagnosed with severe autism, but also to parents across the world who need the information she shares. Seeing an auti...

In today's episode I talk about what happens when you restrict yourself from your natural desires. Often a heightened desire follows a period of restriction and can have negative lasting effects. "Get in the Grey" is the Love FitMama Way. If it suits you and your personality to restrict without rebound, (it's a small percentage of "upholders" according to Gretchen Rubin) and it works then YAY! How...