My whole life I had a poor relationship with food. I struggled with food shame, chronic dieting, eating disorders, and overall feeling out of control with my eating and disconnected from my bodily cues. When on my healing journey I struggled to find the right information that could help me get to a place of food freedom. Now that I’ve healed my relationship with food, recovered from my Eds and became certified as a nutrition coach I was able to take all of my knowledge and experiences and put them into an ebook for you guys. Nourish, a guide to help you heal your relationship with food, break up with diet culture, discovered food freedom, and eat intuitively and mindfully. Tune into this episode to hear about my journey of healing and learn more about what this guide is all about! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

This episode gives you the inside scoop of my journey to where I am now. As some you know I am a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach that focusing on building and healing people’s relationship with food, body, and exercise. This wasn’t always my career goal but it is my purpose. I had to go through I lot of ups and downs to find this purpose and it was all worth it. Listen in to hear more about my journey and why this I lead with a mission of wellness beyond aesthetics. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

I'm back! Did you miss me? Its been a while since I've shared and episode and a lot of things changed. I update you on all the big changes in my life while discussing my recent realization that its not just the relationship with food and exercise I need to heal. We have relationships with everything in life. Based on how we were raised and maybe trauma we faced those relationships may not be the healthiest. This episode I encourage you to take a step back and reflect on all the relationships you have and how those relationships are for you. I hope this episode serves you value and I'm so excited to be back behind the mic. New episodes out every Monday at 5am!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

If you don’t have any aesthetic goals than there is no need for a structure plan that focuses on one form of exercise. If you simply want to engage in exercise just to move your body and feel healthy than intuitive and flexible movement could be perfect for you. It’s about going day by day and giving your body the form of movement it needs for that day. It’s allowing yourself to move intensely some days and slowly other days. Some days your form of movement may be heavy lift or intense cardio session where others may be a slow yoga flow or simply just a walk. Tune into to this episode to learn more about intuitive and flexible movement. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

Fatphobia in the fitness space is a direct result of ignorance and lack of education about health. Health goes beyond physical so you can just look at someone and determine their health. Health is defined by the individual. Health can exist in all shapes and sizes. Thinness is not the default to health, happiness, beauty, or worth. Tune in to understand body diversity and health on a deeper level than just physical. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

Being single is the main event. If you are constantly in a relationship or looking for a relationship how can you ever be at peace with your own self? Allow yourself to be single, embrace the period of life, and watch as you learn and grow. Embracing the single life doesn’t mean you’ll never find love for another person it’s simply just being able to know yourself better and better yourself before you settle down with someone else. Tune in to learn more about the sacredness of being single. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

As we are in the weirdest week of the year aka the transition week between the holidays and the new year I ask you to take some time to reflect. On this episode I break down the themes for each month within this year and then to move forward with my reflections I go over the intentions I have for the new year. Doing this allows us to release what no longer serves us and bring on the lessons we learned from this year into the year ahead. Tune in for some inspiration on reflecting and setting intentions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

Food fears, guilt, and shame tend to pop up a lot during the holiday season. Diet culture tells us we should swap our favorite foods for “healthier” options and over exercise to make up for the “bad” foods we consumed. It makes it hard to be present and just enjoy the season. Tune in to learn receive some tools on how to navigate the holidays without the fear, guilt, and shame that diet culture tries to bring in. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

A gym rat is some who spends a lot of time in the gym specifically to shape and condition their body. This culture has grown tremendously over the years while disguising an obsession with health. As we know obsessions are never healthy and extremely dangerous. In this episode I dive into all the harm and dangerous the gym rat culture practices and promotes. Listen in to discover the perspective of how toxic this culture really is.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support

As some of you may know I ran my first half marathon completely untrained in 2019 to prove that our minds are stronger than our bodies. I enjoy the experienced so much that I chose to do again in 2021 but this time I trained 5 months prior. I really embraced the whole journey over the destination. It was a huge learning experience where I got to understand myself and my body more while also deepening into my spirituality. Listen in to hear all that I learned. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandra939/support