Are you hooked on exercise? Do you freak out when you can’t exercise exactly as you think you should? Or does exercise fill you with dread? How do you know if your relationship with exercise has become toxic and what can you do about it?
Sabine McKenzie is the sage for you, with real, lived experience of breaking up and making up with exercise. Sabine is an eating disorder recovery coach and passionate body image educator. After her own experience with an eating disorder Sabine founded her business – “Core Confidence” - to provide preventative education to schools and community groups, speak out against diet culture and encourage us all to value our worth beyond our image. Carolyn Costin Institute trained, Sabine now provides the 1:1 support she craved when she was struggling in her recovery – helping her clients to decrease feelings of loneliness, provide hope and set the example that full recovery is possible.
In this episode you’ll get practical, step-by-gentle-step advice on how to figure out if your relationship with exercise is uncool, what to do about it and how to move your bod in ways that are fun, freeing and enjoyable!
In this lol-filled episode on Bod Almighty we cover:
- How Sabine knew her approach to exercise was unhelpful (around 3:00)
- Why “the why” is so important! (around 3:30)
- Whether you should be looking for physical measures to understand if your relationship with exercise is toxic or if there are other key indicators (around 5:45)
- Who to talk to if you are unsure whether your relationship with exercise is healthy or not (around 7:30)
- Hot tip: An easy, revealing exercise to dig into your exercise intentions (around 7:45)
- Hannah’s “aha moment” (around 8:30)
- Okay, so your relationship with exercise is a bit funky, what should you do? (around 9:00)
- Sabine’s courageous decision (around 9:30)
- The conundrum with exercise and mental health (around 11:20)
- Uncovering and challenging beliefs around exercise (around 12:00)
- Hot tip: How to ease into taking it easy! (around 13:00)
- How to start “making up” with exercise (around 15:00)
- One thing you really should put to the side to have a better relationship with body movement (around 16:00)
- Sabine’s key measures to knowing when exercise is serving her, rather than her serving it (around 16:30)
- The one place Michelle, Hannah and Sabine aren’t keen on (around 17:30)
- Sabine’s genius hack! (around 18:30)
- Hot tip: A fun way to explore types of movement you might be curious about (around 22:30)
- Have you thought about including “play” in your definition of movement? (around 25:30)
- Which one of us has been to a dance party at 6am… more than once? (around 26:00)
- Hannah’s secret exercise curiosity (around 28:30)
- Sabine’s secret exercise curiosity that we ALL want to do. Hint: it involves PUPPIES! (around 29:00)
- How to use social media to your advantage to get a great relationship with exercise (around 30:30)
Resources:
Sabine’s website: https://www.coreconfidence.net/eating-disorder-recovery-support
Sabine’s instagram accounts: https://www.instagram.com/coreconfidenceperth/
https://www.instagram.com/sabine.mckenzie/
Sabine’s Body Esteem Programme (a resource for educators): https://www.coreconfidence.net/bep-resource
