Episode 42: A Body Positive Guide to Prioritizing Yourself this Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day is right around the corner.
A bouquet of flowers. Some chocolate. Artwork from your kid. A romantic thank you card from your spouse. Flowers or vegetable starts for your garden.
Breakfast in bed. Brunch. Ten minutes of peace and quiet.
Or…the gift that keeps on giving, learning how to prioritize yourself ahead of everything else on your to-do list.
This Savor Food and Body Podcast episode’s guest Dr. Lisa Folden says it best, “if you’re not taking care of yourself, you won’t be able to take care of all the things (and people) that matter most to you.”
Dr. Lisa N. Folden is a North Carolina licensed physical therapist, NASM-certified behavior change specialist (health coach), and the owner of Healthy Phit Physical Therapy and Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC.
As a body-positive women’s health expert and health at every size (HAES®️) ambassador, Dr. Folden helps women seeking healthier lifestyles. Her weight-neutral approach encourages intuitive eating, body acceptance, and breaking up with toxic diet culture.
Dr. Lisa is a mom of three, a published author, and a speaker who understands the complex needs of the modern busy woman. Therefore, she considers helping busy moms find their ‘healthy’ one of her top priorities.
Listen to hear a Body Positive Approach to Self-Care…
- Dr. Lisa’s story about why she did a 180-degree switch to embrace HAES® both personally and professionally.
- How she defines wellness and helps busy Moms in midlife redefine wellness from a weight-neutral perspective?
- When it comes to creating more time to care for yourself, meal prepping, and planning are essential. But diet culture has made it so complicated! Dr. Lisa shares the biggest challenges busy women face when trying to meal plan and prep without falling into the diet culture hole. She shares her personal strategies for meal planning that help her family and her client’s families eat well every week.
- We talk about “enoughness” with exercise and what that means to Dr. Lisa as a physical therapist and how she helps clients find their “enoughness” with exercise.
- We end our conversation with 3 tips for busy moms in midlife who want to be more active, get stronger, and have more endurance.
Be Body Positive: This Mother’s Day, gift yourself 42 minutes of uninterrupted time to hit play and soak this episode in.
Better yet, pop in your earbuds and take the episode on a walk-in nature. You’ll be inspired and empowered to start carving out a little more time for YOU in the coming weeks and months.
Learn more about Dr. Lisa’s work and get resources with these links
Join Dr. Lisa on the best app for moms PeanutHelp Me Find My Healthy Course
Books mentioned in the episode include:
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
Health At Every Size by Lindo (formerly Linda) Bacon
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