Today’s special guest episode is with my friend and colleague, Dr. Sarah Doan. Sarah is a physical therapist turned strength coach and takes a really thoughtful, intentional approach to how she uses strength training and nutrition principals to help people find confidence in their bodies.

Here’s what we cover in today’s episode:

• Why we need to stop addressing people’s physical and mental challenges in isolation and view ourselves as an integrated ecosystem
• How to improve body image and why a diet never changes it
• Why lifting heavy is one of the most powerful tools to change your body image
• How mindful exercise helps you connect to your body in a way unrelated to what you look like
• Why you can’t only rely on how you look to feel good about yourself
• Sarah’s experience with dieting and weight loss and why being smaller still didn’t make her happier
• Why gaining weight can be a good thing
• When you’re in the right place to lose fat and how to do it without dieting
• The surprising negative impact of anti-diet culture

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