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Progress and Self Acceptance: The Paradox.

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Hi. I love you. Please stop trying to substitute a different body for a healed heart.
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Health is in CONNECTION

Are you one of the millions of us staring down a long term goal of (emotional or physical) strength or weight loss or healing? Or the daunting task of parenting or business ownership or walking through big things? How many times have you felt desperately alone in your journey? Yeah. I’m with you. We are
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Why We Feel Like Failures.

to get straight to the point … so many of us feel like failures because these days, there’s only one other option. I finally got words for some of this listening to Brene Brown’s Braving the Wilderness — a pointed look at how we’ve become a culture of “other-ing.” Due in large part to social
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Summertime Low Back Pain?

Every year around this time, we see a influx of pretty healthy humans coming in with weird knee, hip and low back pain … the culprit? SANDAL-ITIS! Boots and closed toe shoes get kicked to the curb, replaced with flip flops and cute sandals, leaving recently restricted foot and ankle muscles confused and under-activated. If
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The Evolution of Personal Training : Part 1

Hey! You! If no one has told you today: YOU ARE ENOUGH. YOU are already an athlete. YOU are amazing! That’s not the underlying message the fitness industry is sharing on social media and in the gym, is it? Fitness industries and professionals, how they communicate with clients, and how media and corporations alter the
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Chronic Shoulder Pain

In 2014, I almost quit lifting kettlebells and practicing yoga. Despite (insanely) correct technique and posture… massage, chiropractic care, self-tissue work, and rehab exercises I was in so much pain that some days I couldn’t function. My neck, shoulder and arm were constantly on fire, I couldn’t turn my head without pain and workouts cost
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fall asleep (and stay asleep)

Do you sleep well most of the time? Wake up feeling like you got enough sleep most mornings? Not me. I don’t ever remember being a person who slept hard or consistently, and I legit zombie-walked through about decade of rock star-level insomnia from 2007-2017. Meditation, Reiki, reading a book, sleep podcasts, audio books… they
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When You’re Just Not Motivated

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A quick preamble: As holistic personal trainers, we’re primarily concerned with helping people move better in the world around them, so I’m going to aim this article in the direction of “How to get yourself to go to the gym when you really really REAAAAALLLY don’t want to but know you’d feel better after but
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A New Lens for Personal Training

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In fall of this 2018, Cari attended Z Health’s R-Phase certification. This certification had created a “user manual” for all of my prior education and I was so excited for her to have that same lens for her expansive collection of experiences, coaching tools and education! Talking brains has become pretty common around here …
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Change Your Habits with Meditation.

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I have a secret for you: 2019 is the year you figure out how to exercise regularly, fuel your body and do the things you know make you a better mom/dad/partner/business owner/team member!!! It may be your best year. Or your worst. But THIS is the year you learn to show up for yourself. This
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Anne Forest is an SFG II Kettlebell Instructor, 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Personal Trainer, and Certified Z Health Practitioner specializing in the neurology of pain and performance and the intersection of corrective exercise and neurological change. She works with people in pain, helps athletes with goals of all shapes and sizes, and trains Strong First candidates on their path to certification.

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