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How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD

By Maggie Mertens — 2021

Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.

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25 – Overcome Doubt and Doubters with Hint CEO Kara Goldin

Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint, the company that is best known for making unsweetened flavor water. Amy talks to Kara about how to overcome self-doubt, how to deal with other people who doubt you, and the one question you should ask yourself when you're afraid to do something.

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47 - Friday Fix: Ask Yourself This Question and You'll Be Kinder to Yourself

Your inner dialogue can either inspire and motivate you to do your best or it can be the one thing that stands between you and living your best life. Studies consistently show self-compassion is the key to feeling and doing your best.

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48 – How to Use Adversity to Your Advantage with NBA All-Star Steve Francis

Steve Francis is a three-time NBA All-Star who played for the Houston Rockets, the Orlando Magic, and the New York Knicks. Steve’s rise to NBA stardom wasn’t an easy one, however. He overcame much adversity in his childhood.

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56 – How to Believe in Yourself with IT Cosmetics Founder Jamie Kern Lima

Jamie Kern Lima is proof that you can conquer self-doubt. Her belief that she could succeed helped her develop a billion-dollar cosmetic company. But she got rejected and turned down many times along the way.

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104 – How to Choose Progress over Perfection with Peloton Instructor Ally Love

Ally Love is the in-arena host of the Brooklyn Nets, and she’s a Peloton instructor. Ally’s successful career path has taught her that it’s important to value progress over perfection.

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The Body as Refuge: A Guided Meditation with JoAnna Hardy

Meditators old and new will enjoy this grounding, body-based practice. iBme teacher JoAnna Hardy offers instruction in returning to the body as refuge or "home base," outlines the four meditation postures, and guides a 14-minute sit.

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Why Befriending Our Bodies Is So Hard, with JoAnna Hardy

iBme teacher JoAnna Hardy briefly explains mindfulness of the body and how to see our bodies as places of refuge. She also talks about how challenging this is when we have personal and/or cultural judgments and opinion around our bodies.

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CPTSD: Are You Triggered by Abandonment?

An intense reaction to the feeling of abandonment is one of the harshest and most common adult symptoms of Complex PTSD (or Childhood PTSD).

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Why Is It So Hard to Do Something that Should Be Easy?

Brendan Mahan explains why simple things can be so difficult.

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EXPLORE TOPIC

Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)