Ep. #537: The emotional connection to body image

 In this episode, I share my journey and insights into fitness, focusing on the importance of getting to the root issues within the nervous system and hormones. 

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00:00 Introduction and Personal Background

00:19 Reflecting on Body Image and Fitness Journey

01:53 Understanding the Root Issues: Hormones and Trauma

02:47 Embracing Self-Acceptance and Present Moment

04:36 Taking Action: Sustainable Workouts and Self-Love

06:20 Join the Challenge: Transform Your Body and Mind

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Transcript

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Casey here. I wanted to come at you with a workout tip. If you're new to my stuff, I help women have it all. Specifically in cracking the weight loss and hormone code. Getting to the root issue in the nervous system and fixing the hormones. I've been in the game for 15 years. Former fitness model. And I've beat my body up a lot. And I noticed yesterday, you know how when you see yourself in a photo, and it makes you feel bad about yourself. I didn't really lift weights. I backed off a lot in 2023 and focused on Pilates and dance and yoga. And in doing that, I got, a lot of cellulite and lots of just things. I stopped tracking my food. I ate a lot of vegan. I backed off hormones. I was going through like a spiritual enlightenment. Those of you that followed me, I did a lot of feminine clearing and work that needed to happen in 2023 cause I've always been very bro oriented and go and competing with masculine. And so I took the time in 2023 to really use that pain as a portal For transformation and it happened, but I remember seeing my photos and just really I Couldn't believe what I was seeing like wow, you know There's it's almost like you were watching yourself deteriorate because here I was I had an identity in Fitness, I mean I was a fitness model and if you look back at my old photos I mean I was on stage and very lean and All that stuff even though some people may think oh, I think you look better now, but either way I A lot of women I noticed they always compare themselves to their former selves. They're like let me get back to the way I was. Let me, if I could just get back to where I was pre pregnancy, blah, blah, blah. And we tend to do those things. It's like we try to go back and relive, rehash the old, the good times and our bodies when they were teens or our bodies when they were the way they were. Here's what I know. And this is why women love working with us. This is why, and this is how we get results, is because we go to the root issue in the subconscious and we do this by addressing our thoughts. It goes beyond positive thinking and all that I would say it's more of understanding trauma. How trauma and experiences in life affect your body, and your mind, and your soul, and your energy. And so many try to combat this. by getting their hormones fixed. They're like, Oh, it's just hormones. Let me just get my hormones fixed. And while that's true, like you need to focus on hormones. And if you want the exact hormone doctors that I use in the exact hormone accelerator that I personally use after total hysterectomy, after hypothyroid, like I've healed adrenal fatigue, hypothyroid, women come here with chronic illnesses and leave with hardly any flare ups. If any, I can't promise that for you, but I'm just saying what's possible. But so many women think that it's just. Hormones and while hormones has a this is a small aspect, you know of getting the result, but if you don't address What's going on the inside and how you think and how you be just for an example when you look back at your photos Okay, when you look back at your photos And you think god, I looked so good back then Hear me out. Back then, even at that time, you still didn't like what you looked like. If you think back really hard and you can connect to that picture of yourself, you're probably like, you were still picking your body apart. I know for me. I was looking at photos of me from probably two years ago, two years ago, and I'm never forgetting that shoot. I was thinking, God, maybe my estrogen's high. Obviously it looked like I wasn't really trying to Nail this photo shoot. Like I was really judging myself because my obliques didn't look like super cut and lean. And so I started judging myself like, damn. And then noticing how I feel about my body now, I was just like, damn. So I thought back then I liked my body but I was still hard on myself. Like I'm not in shape, blah, blah, blah. And then the older I get, the psych, the harder it is and harder I am on myself in a way. I can't explain it where I judge myself. I find myself judging myself thinking that I need to look a different way, go be more consistent, be more this and that. And really I look back at photos and go, God, me. Back then, you didn't appreciate it. You just didn't appreciate anything. But those moments are fleeting. And I guess I'm rambling to say how can we get in the moment now to appreciate where we are now? How can we love our bodies now? Because we're gonna look back and go, Holy shit, I look good. Holy shit, why didn't I run with that? Why didn't I see how amazing and badass I really was and am? So claiming it now We have to no matter where you're at and I understand when you look down and you see wrinkly knees and cellulite I get it Acceptance except that's where we're at and say now what and you take action and you take action The steps you get the food test you get the hormones you get on the right type of workouts and you find something that's sustainable today I did a workout with five pound dumbbells if you would have told me that's what I was gonna do Ten years ago when I was at the peak of my fitness profession. I would have been like you're fucking kidding me What's that gonna do? I have videos saying Lightweights not gonna get it, but I can promise you that pushing yourself overexertion caffeine forcing You know, overexertion, it's going to break your body down. And over time it will develop into chronic illness and stubborn fat. So with that I just want you to know, look at your photos today. Even if you don't like them, how can you embody the energy of acceptance? And I love it now. Like I love it now. And I'm bad ass now. And just really bring that in. That energy is going to create the quantum field you. What that means is you're going to expand time, you're going to collapse time, by bringing the future into the now. Because think about it, you're like, oh once I get my body, once I look like this then it's going to be over bitch, like you can't tell me shit. Bring that into this now moment. And watch what fucking happens. Like I just went up there and did the five pound dumbbells and I'm like, I'm channeling my future self, bringing it in the now. And I'm like, this is the best body I've ever had. This is the best body I've ever had. It's in the making. I'm so proud of it. And I'm so thankful for it. It feels so good. Just watch what happens. Just watch what fucking happens. If you want the exact course that I use journal prompts, clearings mindset work, hormones. Do the challenge. Do the challenge. Just put challenge in the comments or DM me challenge and you can do this with me. I'm doing coaching calls every week. We're doing energetics, hormones, motivation, inspiration I teach you what I'm doing because we're getting it and my body's changing. I've already lost a 1 percent body fat. There's that. Alright, put challenge in the comments, and I'll make sure you get the right link.