Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women
If you're both a Fierce Warrior and a Heart-Centered Goddess, then this show is your safe space.
Welcome to a power portal for spiritual baddies and wild, untamed women.
Maybe you've been told you were "too much" or "crazy." Maybe your emotions and your intensity repelled the wrong people. Maybe you felt misunderstood or like you never quite fit in.
In this community, your intensity, your emotion, and your power are not only welcomed, but celebrated. You aren't too much: you're just meant for more.
You're here because you're ready to unleash your inner warrior queen, create radiant health, break free from all limitations, and claim your freedom.
Get ready to turn what were once mundane daily habits into acts of magic, catalyzing deep growth and transformation.
You don't just build habits... you create personally aligned rituals of self-care and embodied self-worth. 🧘♀️💫
You don't just do "mindset work"... you use the power of your word and your stories to create entirely new paradigms. 🗣️⚡
You don't "exercise"... you allow movement to connect you to body wisdom and move energy through your body. 💃🌀
We'll cover everything from:
🍎 Dynamic Eating Psychology
🧠 Mind-Body Nutrition
🌚 Shadow Work
✨ Manifestation
🙏 Spirituality
💖 Healing
🧘♀️ Personal Development
💃 Embodiment
This show isn't just conceptual ideas. On each episode, you'll get journal prompts and embodied challenges and activations so you don't just think about transformation... you embody it.
This podcast is brought to you by Kayla MacDonald – a personal trainer turned spiritual teacher, embodiment guide, and Dance Alchemy leader who is on a mission to help every listener set themselves free, cultivate deeper levels of peace and fulfillment, and activate their unique superpowers.
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Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women
130. Does Running Cause Weight Gain? All Things Cardio, Cortisol, & Choosing An Aligned Form of Exercise
This episode was inspired by an interesting conversation I had with a friend on one of our hikes.
She was sharing something she'd heard from a big health coach in the industry. What she'd heard was this:
Running and other types of high-intensity cardio raise your cortisol levels and create a stress response in the body. This can cause people, especially women in menopause, to gain weight.
She asked what my thoughts were. I said I agreed and disagreed. I'm going to elaborate on the thoughts I had surrounding this topic. In this episode, you'll learn:
- The science behind stress-related weight gain from running and other intense forms of cardio.
- How our thoughts about movement and exercise impact our body's physiological response to them.
- When running or other high-intensity cardio would be beneficial, and when it might be more harmful than helpful in terms of building health and longevity.
- How to choose the most aligned exercise for you.
- How to tune into your own body's wisdom to make the best movement-related decisions possible.
Article On Cortisol & Exercise: https://www.runtothefinish.com/why-working-out-but-gaining-weight/