Journal
Setting Boundaries & Listening to the Wisdom of Your Body with Phuong Thao Nguyen Macleod
This week’s interview is with embodiment coach and boundaries expert, Phuong Thao Nguyen Macleod.
Phuong Thao helps women of color reconnect with themselves, set healthy boundaries and honor the wisdom of their bodies.
She uses a mind-body approach to help women who have experienced personal or systemic trauma reconnect with their worthiness, wholeness and aliveness.
How to Stop Blocking Your Own Power
I don’t know about you but as we start seeing a glimmer of light at the end of this pandemic, I’m finding it harder and harder to just casually ride the Carona Coaster of emotional ups and downs. I WANT THIS SHIT TO BE OVER. Like yesterday.
As we marked one year of pandemic life, I started thinking about the ways the past year has left many of us feeling powerless. And how, when that sense of powerlessness is left unchecked, it has a way of creeping inward and transforming into hopelessness and depression.
Here’s an example from my life:
Body Neutrality & Reclaiming Fitness with Bethany C. Meyers
People! This interview was SO. MUCH. FUN. I got to sit down with Bethany C. Meyers, to talk about their journey from fitness instructor struggling with their body image and disordered eating to CEO and founder of the be.come project, a modern fitness app focused on inclusivity and joyful movement.
We got into so many compelling topics, including:
What body neutrality is and how it can help you get peace with your body
How terrifying it can be to throw out your scale
Ways to stop looking at exercise as punishment and instead use it as a way to heal and a source of pleasure
How and why the wellness industry needs to consider the experience of BIPOC and other underrepresented communities
The relationship between gender identity, body dysmorphia and body image
The fact that we’re all on a journey and even the “experts” are still growing and learning and don’t have it all figured out
