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🔥 June 14th, my friend Adrienne is hosting the grand opening of the Ponnopozz store! Visit 1966 W Montrose any time 10am - 6pm to support this beautiful retail store.
🔥 June 21st, join the Argyle Walking Tour with Brick of Chicago to learn about the physical history of Argyle Street. It's like the architecture tour for non-tourists.
Happy Friday, Friends!
Over the years, clients have come to me for help on improving a variety of health challenges. These include but are not limited to:
➡️ Regulating A1C levels or blood pressure
➡️ Fixing achy joints when performing daily tasks
➡️ Peri/menopause symptoms,
➡️ And much, much more.
Others come to begin healing their relationship with their bodies and exercise due to eating disorders, experiencing body shame, or physical or emotional trauma (car or bike accidents, assaults, etc.).
These might seem like a wide range, but they have one thing in common. Nondiet training helped ALL of them. For some of you, this might seem like a no-brainer, because diets just aren’t that helpful.
If you’re not sure how it works… Let’s talk about it.
Nondiet training is about exercising for health goals outside of intentional weight loss. It’s that simple.
It's about finding ways to enjoy (or become neutral towards) movement. While this approach can help you lose fat and gain muscle, it usually results in a more positive, more sustainable relationship with movement, your body, and food. It’s about disconnecting movement and exercise from how you look and instead processing how you feel in motion.
When you drop into your body and tune in to how you feel instead of what you look like, you discover amazing things. You can FEEL the mood-boosting, stabilizing effects of movement. You understand where you hold trauma in your body. You learn how your body wants to move, free from the pressure of how diet culture tells you you “should” move.
Over time, you develop an appreciation for your body’s wisdom. You learn how to tune in to cues that diet culture used to drown out with its constant call to lose weight. This can be especially healing for folx who struggle with disordered eating and body shame, but other issues too, like people pleasing, substance abuse, visible and invisible disabilities, struggles with accepting themselves, and tons of other things!
At the end of the day, muscle gains and fat loss turn into nice-to-have side effects. The real prize is something that no trainer, diet, or supplement company can put a price tag on - a solid relationship with your body, where you’re finally on the same team.
That’s why I believe so strongly in this training method. I’ve learned so much over the years, seeing clients come to me with specific problems and ending up with general wellness that reaches every area of their lives. I’m inspired by my clients who keep showing up for themselves and their bodies.
So today, I want to say thank you for supporting my business by keeping up with my weekly updates, meeting me for training, showing up for my events, and believing in what I talk about here. Even if it feels hard some days.
If this resonates with you, please comment below! I want to get us talking to each other. I urge you to share your experiences with movement, body shame, and rediscovering yourself against all the diet culture odds.
With you in these times…
Dana