Befriending Your Body, with Valerie Tookes
Nurturing Habit podcast with Doña Bumgarner, featuring Valerie Tookes
Do you consider your body your friend? An ally? Or do you, as so many women do, interact with it more as an adversary? As if your body is troublesome, needs too much, is too much, or looks or feels the wrong way?In this conversation with Valerie Tookes, we explore how befriending our body, treating it as we would a good and wise friend, could change everything.Although Valerie came to her coaching practice from a background in nutrition, you will not find a conversation here about what you should or should not eat, or five steps to meet your weight loss goals. Instead, Valerie's work is focused on building up the connection and respect between our mental and physical selves. As Valerie says, "Our body is always speaking to us."What might we learn, if we slow down enough to listen and to really learn what it is saying?Listen to Episode 16 now by clicking the little arrow in the play bar below (if you don’t see it, reload the page), or head over to iTunes or your favorite podcast player.Links from this episode:
Anatomy of the Spirit, by Carolyn Myss (affiliate link)
When Food Is Love, by Geneen Roth (affiliate link)
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