Finding Food & Fitness Freedom: An Empowered RX Podcast

Join us for our next episode of Empowered RX. Today we kick off a new season and celebrate the growth of Empowered! We have all hands on deck for this episode and it's the first one to have our 4 staff members together for the conversation.  Here we introduce ourselves, tell our stories and experiences with diet culture and discuss just how toxic growing up as a teen playing sports can be.&nb...

Today we focus on the intersection of trauma, overexercising, eating disorders and health. Many people don't realize it but trauma and eating disorders are often inextricably linked. In this episode we discuss the ways they impact our health and some of the long term issues that come about when we don't seek treatment and find deep health. Please leave us a review!  Find us on Instagram @empo...

Join Leah Cottle and Tina Glennie on today's episode of Empowered RX where they dive deep into Goal setting and motivation after trauma! The big take home message? Own your story, own your life! Once you own your story you take your power back! In this episode the girls discuss: The different phases of goal setting What goal setting can be like before and after trauma Actionable steps to approach...

Join us with Chelsea Horton, Founder and CEO of Healing Embodied, as we dive deep into the world of Relationship Anxiety & OCD. Are you filled with doubt, anxiety and fear about your relationships? Does it cause disturbances in your every day life and keep you from being present? YOU AREN'T ALONE! When many people think of OCD they think of cleanliness, repetition and odd habits. Most people d...

Jen Kiaba is an international award winning artist using self portraits to examine coercive control. She dives deep into her experiences with religious trauma after being raised into the Unification Church. This church was referred to by popular media as  "The Moonies". After escaping a forced arranged marriage, she found her way out of the cult in her early twenties. Head to her instagram or...

Enter Haley Morrone. She is one badass woman who has completely transformed her life, her health and her trauma. This has been one of my favorite episodes to date because of how down to earth and kind Haley is!  She gives amazing advice that you can adopt RIGHT NOW! Like: - Focus on the present moment - Small actionable daily steps - Shedding trauma and building confidence - How to never live...

Please Welcome Jenn Green onto Empowered RX podcast for this awesome episode. Jenn dives deep into her experiences on the CrossFit HQ board, Owning her affiliate box CrossFit Greer AND on having high functioning anxiety!  To visit Jenn Green's CrossFit Affiliate head on over to https://crossfitgreer.com/ 

Join us in this Episode of Empowered where we interview Jennifer Storm... a force to be reckoned with! Survivor. Author. Victim’s Rights Expert. Consultant. Fitness Lover. Jennifer Storm has over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and government work combined with a powerful personal story of survival from victimization and addiction . Today with over twenty-three years of active...

Amy Mandelbaum, 5x Games Athlete, talks training, coaching, trauma & women's empowerment. She shares her journey from a young woman lost in the world to becoming a 5x Games Athlete and Affiliate owner at CrossFit Westport where she is on a mission to help all women who walk through her doors to become empowered and find their voice.  Amy joins me to share her story of how she has been abl...

Join us on the Empowered RX Podcast as we breakdown the Empowered RX 5 Goal Setting Factors. It's not 3 months after January 1st. Are you still working towards those resolutions? For most of us, the answer is no... Listen to this quick podcast to find out why new years resolutions don't stick and how you can reframe your approach to goal setting to work towards your goals in the next 3 months.&nbs...

Join us on our Empowered RX Podcast for an episode with Geralyn Shirley! Geralyn is a mother, an ICU Nurse, a CrossFitter, Nutrition Coach and a trauma survivor!  She attends CrossFit Eureka in St. Louis and is passionate about all things health and wellness. From early childhood, Geralyn has struggled with body image, stress and other adverse experiences. She is one strong woman and continue...

Join us on our Empowered RX Podcast for an episode with Nicole Smith Levay. Nicole Smith Levay is a former professional dancer turned Energy Coach who integrates somatic therapy, meditation, and breathwork into healing sessions and classes for women who struggle with anxiety and depression. She holds a MA Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and is a well known worksho...

Empowered RX unpacks stress and the potential negative health impacts of trauma and prolonged stress on the body. We take a look at MACRO STRESS which comes in the form of trauma and major life events. We look at MICRO STRESS which people tend to overlook and assume is normal. Continuous micro stress can have a cumulative effect on ALL systems in the body.  Exhausted? Burnt out? Tense? Not re...

Join Empowered RX with special guest Jean Hanks from Westborough, MA. Jean is a CrossFitter at Prototype Training Systems. She has gone almost every day  for the past 8 years and believes that she was able to fight cancer because of her inner strength, the community and her fitness. She paints a vivid picture of what having Cancer felt like in mind & body and gives us practical tips on ho...

Join Empowered RX with special guest, Tina Glennie. She is a personal trainer out of Virginia and loves all things health and fitness. A few years back, Tina survived a traumatic accident in which she was run over and dragged 50 feet by a metro bus.  Tina's enthusiasm, optimism and ability to laugh is contagious. Join us while we hear about her struggles and the ways in which she turned them...

At Empowered RX we believe in the transformative power of weightlifting and movement in the healing of trauma. Human beings have an amazing capacity to overcome adversity. Sometimes memories, tension and emotional pain get "stuck" in the body. When talk therapy and conversation complicates or can't alleviate discomfort, we believe that movement can be prescribed to help work through hardship and t...

Join Empoweredrx with special guest, Georgia Verry- founder of The Fight Back Project. Georgia is a Trauma-informed Kickboxing Coach and Exercise Scientist out of Australia. She uses the healing and transformative power of martial arts to help women reconnect with their bodies and discover a sense of control.  In this episode you will hear- ---Georgia's amazing background as an Exercise Scien...

Inside this episode we dive deep into the harmful effects of diet culture, weight stigma, body image and how our motivation can become intricately attached to these concepts! Reach out with comments and questions below! OR E-mail Leah@Prototypetraining.com!