Body Habit Rescue | Mom Health and Fitness, Burnout, Self-Care, Mindset, Strategic Habits and Routines
Do you know what your body needs but can’t figure out why it’s not working for your goals? Are you always doing for others in family, work and community, but never finding time to care for yourself? Have you given up on the diet roller-coasters, heavy workouts and weight loss obsession but don’t know what to do next? You are not alone! And your health matters. I am here to help you find balance, whole health, and confidence in your body again, helping you center the most important support for your life - your body’s health. Hey, I’m...
55: Sex vs. Sleep - Are We Trading Our Relationships for Healthy Sleep Habits?
I read a statistic recently that blew my mind: “the frequency of sex among moms with partners has also declined since last year, with 54% of moms reporting that they are having less sex than they were a year ago… 60% are having sex twice a month or less.”
Not only are we trading physical intimacy with our partners for sleep, I also read, “Moms are finding other ways to prioritize self-care, with 51% reporting they prioritize sleep over socializing with friends and family.”
If we’re honest, the issue here is NOT sleep, it is exhaustion. In today’s epis...
54: BONUS Why Celebrating My Black Heritage is a Healthy Habit
Celebrating Black American heritage is healthy! Especially if you are a person of color in the very racially separated society, it may be very important for you to consider ways you can find clarity and find your voice within this dynamic.
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Let’s move,
Lu
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53: Normalizing Busy Mom Chaos in Baby Steps to Healthy Habits
Mom life is way too busy for all the self-care TikTok trends, the hour-long workouts, the gourmet meals, the weekly girls nights! Life can be absolute chaos, near burnout, between diaper changes, afterschool lessons, work projects and then all the unexpected LIFE that gets thrown at us!
To build healthy habits, we don't need perfectionism, we need to build consistency and routines. And consistency comes with building momentum in small, daily actions that will create big results longterm. Today’s episode is the simple encouragement and boost you need to get those healthy habits going this new ye...
52: Is “Healthy Habit Decision Fatigue” Fogging Your Progress? 5 Simple Steps to Get Your Healthy Habits Back on Track
Can’t find time to work out? Grabbing drive-thru AGAIN because it’s just too hard to figure out a meal at home?
So many of us, too tired from life, are stuck in what I’m calling “healthy habit decision fatigue” on today’s podcast. And it’s time to start walking out of this frozen place in our minds and make moves!
Listen today as I share four ways to walk out of decision fatigue and into agency and empowerment around your healthy habits.
Let’s move,
Lu
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51: What is Mobility? Start this Vital Healthy Habit Now
Pain in your knees? Ankles? Sore neck or back?
Mobility could be the missing puzzle piece in your movement routines! Mobility is so important, for injury prevention and for remaining active for a lifetime.
Today, I’m talking about mobility - what it is and why this kind of movement is so important to have in your regular movement routine.
Let’s move,
Lu
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50: Celebrating 50 Episodes! Sharing My New Year Goals
We have made it to 50 episodes! Today, I’m sharing what I’ll be working on this new year in each of the 5 habit areas from the Body Habit Rescue program.
Let’s move,
Lu
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49: The ONE Thing that Will Get You Farther Faster in Your New Year Health Goals and Resolutions
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Are you in decision fatigue already this new year? Feeling behind as everyone seems to be flying past with their new year goals, new health routines and commitments, and new results their after?
Girl, me too. But, we are moving slow this new year, and in today’s episode, I want to share with you one thing...
48: 4 Essential Tasks for Lasting Change in the New Year
Mentioned in today’s episode:
2024 Wellness Planning Party and other new year freebies for Body Habit Rescue group members - https://bit.ly/bhrFBgroup Body Habit Rescue Insider (emails and other perks) - https://bit.ly/bhrinsiderHappy new year! We are well into the new year, and I want to support you actually *achieving* your goals this new year - this year is going to be different!
So many times, we try to make changes and “finally” commit to the thing we’re afraid of, but then life happens… and boom, we’re back in the same...
47: Holiday Health Habits: Managing Holiday Stress with the 5 Habits
Right now you may be so tired, so stressed, so done with all the things for and around the holiday, and I want to give you some motivation to take care of yourself this holiday.
In today’s episode, I’m talking about how the 5 habit areas from the Body Habit Rescue are going to support your health through the holidays.
Let’s move,
Lu
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46: Holiday Health Habits: Keeping Healthy While Traveling
Do you get a little antsy about how I’m going to keep showing up for your health and sanity as you travel?
Me three.
It’s so important for me because I definitely do NOT show up well for my family or my own enjoyment when I am not taking care of myself. And honestly, my family is no fun to be around when we’re not getting our basic health needs met.
With so much transition and change when we’re on the road, in today’s episode, I cover a few basics...
45: Holiday Healthy Habits: How to Hibernate and Refresh this Season
We don’t call it hibernation for humans in winter, but we do actually move inward - and moving inward is such a consistent part of the holiday, even spiritually as we think of the actual holidays - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
In today’s episode, I talk about how to allow ourselves to lean into hibernating this holiday, in all areas of our wellness.
Let’s move,
Lu
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44: Holiday Health Habits: Modifying Healthy Habits for Cold Weather
I think most of us - if we’re living with a very heavy load - we need consistency in any season. Many times the holiday season is such a rush, and the cooler temperatures give us an excuse to throw in the towel for our healthy habits.
But this doesn’t have to happen!
In today’s episode, I talk about how I modify my healthy habit rhythms for the cold season.
Let’s move,
Lu
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43: The Secret Behind Lasting Healthy Habits that Get Results
Why do some goals succeed and some goals fail? This is a BIG question with a lot of answers, but at the core of the answer is whether we have given the goal a fair chance.
This is the same when we are reaching for healthier habits and healthier lifestyles! Whether it is more energy, more confidence, weight management, less overwhelm, or managing major health challenges, the key ingredient of consistency will always play a major role in our efforts.
But how do we stay consistent? In this episode, I’m sharing one core ethic an...
42: 4 Healthy Ways to Recharge When Your Energy is Low
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So many of us are walking around, looking at life through a thick cloud of low energy day in and day out.
Do you have anything that reminds you to check in with your personal fuel tank?
Taking a moment to acknowledge you are low energy/low fuel can mean everything for the rest of your day and how yo...
41: 4 Ways to Keep Moving through the Holiday Hustle
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The holiday season has descended on us here in America, and it comes with so many more tasks or projects, events, and merry-making, all in an effort to make the season more intentional and feel celebrated.
But our health stays with us in every season, and in colder months in America, it can mean more time indoors and less...
40: Overcoming the Social Holiday Hurdles to Get Healthy
Are you looking forward to OR dreading the holiday season? Holidays can be such an uplifting time for many, and it can be a really challenging time for many. The overwhelm, anxiety, frustration and isolation that happens during the holidays is all too common.
Because of the challenge, it is important to assess our surroundings so that we can ensure we are supporting our health - mentally, emotionally, physically - in every season.
Today I want to give you a few tips to help you decide habits and environmental factors that are worth keeping and...
39: 4 Ways to Show Up for Your Health When You’re Unmotivated
We are SO busy and find ourselves exhausted and overwhelmed a lot - who has time for healthy habits? But then, we have goals! We want to show up with energy and actually enjoy this time and place we have right now. Are you with me?
In today’s episode, I’m sharing 4 ways I have learned to show up for my goals even when I’m unmotivated.
Let’s move,
Lu
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38: Experiencing Friendship - Social Media Habits that Can Make or Break Us
When’s the last time you came away from social media feeling welcomed, loved, accepted, feeling seen - even in areas you may not be proud of?
This experience - of being welcomed, loved, accepted, supported - is called friendship. It’s TRUE friendship. Experiencing friendship with people - not just a place to dump or be dumped on - but a place of exchange and safety - this is something, both a place and a skill, that we can develop over time.
If you are on social media, you are part of 60.49% of the glob...
37: Focus! 3 Ways to Sustain Energy and Avoid Burnout
One of our biggest energy drains during the day is distractions! We are pulled in a hundred different directions, and none of them are supporting our values or goals or moving any balls down any fields.
Do you feel me? In the overwhelm of all the hats we wear, we need to be able to take back our focus and regain our energy and health.
Today, I’m sharing three ways I guard my focus throughout my day.
Let’s move,
Lu
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36: How Motivation is the Most Common HURDLE to Healthier Habits
Did you know that gathering motivation is the WORST way to build a new healthy habit?
It doesn’t matter how many times you like a video on Instagram or how many vision ideas you add to your Pinterest board, motivation alone will fail us if we are waiting to catch the wave into action.
It’s because motivation is just another name for intentions. It is great to have good motivations for WHY we do what we do. But DOING the thing, over and over again, getting better and better at it, doesn’t come f...
35: Tricky and Treaty Holidays - No More Healthy Habit Burnout!
The holiday season is here! Treats are starting to roll in - and probably will keep coming till mid-April next year.
With all the comfort food, lower outdoor temps, less sunlight, and - let’s be honest - STRESS that comes with the holiday season, maybe you’re like me and need some mindset work to see past the treat table.
In this episode, I’m sharing how healthy habits can be the better focus for longterm health.
Let’s move,
Lu
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34: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? Key Components to Get Unstuck in Your Workout Habits
Have you ever wanted to do a bigger workout, but you’re afraid you won’t be able to make it through the workout? Like it will take a LOT of mental strength to follow through? Maybe you have fears your breath is going to give out, or you’re going to hit a fatigue wall?
Or maybe you’re wanting to take your workouts up a few notches - with the aim to get faster or more powerful - but you’re not sure how?
In today’s episode, I talk about two key components n...
33: Struggling with Consistency? Gain Traction in Healthy Routines with Habit Tracking
Are you struggling to sustain your healthy routines? On and off again, or maybe it’s all or nothing, stop-and-start, race to the finish and then burnout? There are so many mental and environmental challenges competing with building healthy habits.
BUT building daily, weekly, and monthly healthy routines is perfectly in line with the natural rhythms of our bodies and for growing our health.
Today we’re talking about the importance of routine building and how habit tracking may be a great way for you to see results fast.
Let's move,
Lu
32: 4 Steps to Creating a True, Healthy Movement Habit
Regular movement is a core, healthy habit. BUT, getting to 10,000 steps a day is almost impossible without devoting a large chunk of time to movement. Although it's an out-of-the-box idea, I preach that moving all day is possible. AND we can do more, better, when we break things up into smaller increments.
I want to give you 4 steps to creating an all-day movement habit so you can get in your movement needs daily.
Let's move,
Lu
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31: Sick of Overwhelm Winning Again? 3 of My Time-Saving Healthy Habits
Implementing healthy habits can take a huge amount of focus and determination. It sometimes feels like busy work - taking time to figure out what’s wrong and what needs to change, pausing everything to get life right. But sometimes, when you pause for a moment and then press play again on life, it all seems to fall apart… again.
Life doesn’t come with pause buttons! In today’s episode, I talk about a crucial behavior pattern that you have learned as a survival mechanism, that may not be helping you actually to get the important stuff do...
30: Know What Brings You Joy! Joy is an Essential Healthy Habit
What brings you joy? Simple question, but many of us listening to this would struggle to figure this out if we were put on the spot to name 3 to 5 things that bring us joy.
In reaching for better health, this is less obvious but one of the most central elements of creating healthy habits - we must find joy in the choices we make!
In today’s episode, I want to take a moment to give you permission to let the sunshine in, and allow yourself to make joy a daily part of your healthy li...
29: Feeling Pulled Between Body Positivity and Healthy Habits? Let’s Talk
In the wellness world, we are weathering a huge shift in supporting people’s goals. With the massive surge of body positivity during the Covid-19 quarantine, we have seen a huge swing back into the direction of dieting and weight loss.
Truth is, we can be grateful for our bodies and struggle to see the beauty of our bodies. And if we’re honest, in the food category, our body positivity may sound something like “at least I’m not starving myself to get skinny.”
Beauty, confidence, and body appreciation are feelings. But what we struggle w...
28: Why Dieting is Not a Sustainable Healthy Habit and What to Do Next
How many diets have you tried? If not actual diets then maybe dietary changes? If you have tried more than one (which, who hasn’t?), or if you are OVER all the well-meaning but overreaching comments from family members who have ALL the ideas on what you’re not doing to take care of yourself, then this episode is for you.
You probably have done green-, plant-based, carb-cutting, eliminating all the things. And so many times, it gets results in the beginning and then poof - what is happening? Or maybe it’s really hard to sustain becaus...
27: What’s the Best Workout? Why I Recommend HIIT Workouts for Busy Moms
Have you ever asked - what’s the BEST workout? How can I get faster results in less time with my busy schedule? Do I really need to do hours of cardio or time-consuming strength training sessions to meet my body’s needs?
The answer is yes. And no. Thankfully, we have so many fitness options available to us. But which one is the right fit for you? In today’s episode, I’m going to talk about why I think these HIIT workouts are a genius workout option for busy moms.
Let’s move,
Lu
26: Failed again? 4 Mindset Traps that Keep You from Sustaining Healthy Habits
Unfortunately, sometimes our daily health is giving us a “failure” message. All the things we should be doing, need to do, haven’t done, and so on. I want to call four mindset areas to our attention so that we can take a closer look - and maybe even start addressing some of these issues, and get them fixed!
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Lu
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25: Too Burned Out to Meal Prep? Bulk Stock Your Pantry with These Common Ingredients so You Can Eat Healthy Dinners at Home
Do you have a well-stocked pantry that is ready for you every time you prepare meals at home? Or is one of the reasons you dread meal prep because you know you never have the ingredients and will have to run to the grocery for this and that, on the way here or there, right after you do xyz?
And then it quickly becomes another fast-food night, another hit to the budget, or some other huge challenge to figure out what the heck you’re going to eat.
Yep, I have been there. And it is...
24: Why “Just Showing Up” IS Enough (& 5 Reasons You Need Healthy Boundaries)
There will be times when we have to celebrate that “just showing up” is enough. Let me give you 5 reasons to create healthy boundaries around your top priorities.
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Lu
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23: Need Help Getting Consistent with Your Health Habits? 5 Strategies to Consider
Consistency, consistency… We all know that it is consistency that will get results in your health habits. But for some of us, consistency feels as far away as a remote island on another side of the world. It is ridiculous to think we can be consistent in anything, much less our health goals, and we know we need help, but we have no idea where to start.
Today, we’re going to dig the tunnel underground, across the land and ocean of our lives, to that remote island of consistency. In today’s episode, I want to...
22: Self-Care with Interoception - and 3 Healthy Ways to Get More of It
Today we’re talking about “interoception” - a sixth sense of generally knowing what is happening across our entire bodies. Interoception is the perception of the whole state of the body. Many times we lose sensitivity to or interpretation of this sense and its signals, and it causes a disconnection - that could contribute to anxiety, depression, even things like PTSD or eating disorders.
Mild disconnection to our interoception may lie a lot under the guise of productivity and efficiency - at home, on errands, in work, in education systems, in economic challenges, politics and social discourse about c...
21: Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Wellness Game? 5 Ways Perfectionism May Block Your Healthy Habit Progress
Sometimes, we find ourselves in a place where we may be having a little (or a lot of) progress in our wellness goals, and these little, tiny, negative thoughts start to creep in and get bigger and bigger, distracting us from the activities that support our healthy choices and activities.
On today’s episode, we’re talking about perfectionism. And perfectionism can look like a lot of things, but I’m going to talk about five different ways perfectionism may show up as you go after your wellness goals, and some tips on how to overcome these...
20: 3 Questions to Ask When Considering Your Next Big Wellness Goal
Do you have a big wellness goal in mind, but you feel like you’ve tried it before, and you just can’t pinpoint what is not working? Or maybe you know what wasn’t working, but the threat of failure keeps you from trying at all? Sometimes failure has less to do with the actual goal and more to do with 3 other questions you may not be asking.
In today’s episode, I want us to consider our big wellness goals with a few key questions to ask when making our goals. What's a goal you're after in...
19: Break up with Revenge Bedtime Procrastination and Get more Sleep
Sleep-loss/sleep deprivation is too common - add on top Revenge Bedtime Procrastination (“getting back” at the overwhelmingly long days). Revenge Bedtime Procrastination was diagnosed as ultra-busy people were going to bed later and later, to “own” part of their day (think “my time”). Sleep loss is the most common basic issue in women I work with, and it adds to the already stressful, over-worked season of motherhood and work. Today, I’m going to teach you how to defeat Revenge Bedtime Procrastination so that you can get a full night’s sleep.
Let’s move,
...18: Get Organized to Get Results (3 of 3) - Write it Down!
I believe in writing things down! I use and teach using the Body Habit Tracker with Body Habit Rescue program because of the mind-body collaboration that happens when we write things down. Neural encoding, memory recall, focus, clarity, high-level thinking. Today, I talk about 3 areas you should be writing things down to move you closer to your wellness goals.
Let’s move,
Lu
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17: Get Organized to Get Results (Part 2 of 3) - Healthy Habits for More Movement
Life can feel like it is just washing over you - day by day, eeking out tasks and chores and errands, working for others’ goals and gains. In today’s episode, part 2 of a 3-part series, we’re going to learn foundationally how to get more movement into your day for mental, emotional, physical AND social strength.
Let’s STOP and really get intentional about our healthy movement habits.
Let’s move,
Lu
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16: Get Organized to See Results (Part 1 of 3) - Routines for Better Eating
Today’s episode is about digging into the core of how we begin to see results with all of our attempts to have better health, get stronger, eat better, get to sleep, so on, etc… If you’re like me, these have been overwhelming at times, and we just want someone to tell us where to start, how to start. Well, the starting place for any place of growth or wanting real results is always getting ourselves organized. I’ve decided to do a 3-part series on getting ourselves organized with our health habits, and Today, I’m going to share w...
