Jan 17 2022
S2 E 42: Mindset, Mindfulness, and Movement with Sara Howe, Holistic Coach and Trainer
This. Episode. It has hit more glitches than any other one! Sound quality and late posting aside, this is one of our best! It’s a metaphor for how life is. Rewarding experiences oftentimes require the most work. It is these hard times that end up giving us the most value; as brain injury survivors we understand this all too well!
Sara Tucker Howe is an inspiration. She has used her journey to sculpt her into a compassionate and loving human. Our conversation is a powerful reminder that true beauty is a reflection of our inner spiritual and mental health. This episode has elements to feed your soul!
Learn more about Sara and connect with her as one of life’s sherpas at (saratuckerhowe.com)! Get a free workout with Sara on our NEW (tools and resources page)!
In this episode:
Sara’s Website and coaching business is LIVE!! (Saratuckerhowe.com)
Health coaching, personal training, virtual training
Clients come to Sara for mindset, learning how to care for your whole self, and personal training.
Mindset, mindfulness, and movement builds you as a healthy person on the inside which is then reflected on the outside.
Go to the (new tools and resources page) on our website (www.makingheadwaypodcast.com) for a FREE lower body workout from Sara!
Gender norming
The roles that are expected of us
Living in your emotions and learning to self soothe
Filling your own cup
How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath: super powerful kids book we all can learn from; link below
We can’t fix others. We can fix ourselves and then live by example
On Site Workshops; Cumberland Furnace, TN, link below
Living Centered Program
An off the grid, inner-work retreat
Group meditation, lectures, group experiential therapy
Insights
Everybody has trauma and your body remembers it, from small things that happened with your peers to large life events
Psychodrama- a role play experience that allows you to play your inner child and members of your family. Allows you to experience situations from multiple viewpoints
Very safe environment
Every human wants to be seen and heard for who they are
Validating experience
Human beings not human doings
Trust the process
It may suck but you will get there and get through it
Recharging to find your peace
The spider web
A parallel to life
While making the web, the spider falls and gets back up making beautiful imperfections within the web. These lines strengthen the structure.
The web is like life. Our story is written a little bit (the big lines of the web). You’re born into what you’re born into
Throughout life you fall and get back up. It’s not perfect. You get back up and keep going. These make all the beautiful intricacies of life (like the intricacies within the web)
A reminder that we make beauty out of our life events
Sara’s personal training
Half marathon, a challenge out of the comfort zone
Continual challenges to the body yield results
Stroke risk article: high intensity workouts and high stress as risk factors for stroke, get link below
Adding stressful exercises to high stress lives–maybe the better challenge for you at those times is doing something soothing, walking or yoga
Listening to our bodies
Looking healthy isn’t the same as being healthy on the inside
Mindset, mindfulness, movements
Consider your morning routine and how it makes you feel
Consider helpful day starters beyond your cell phone: meditation, yoga flow, inspirational reading
Find Your Happy Daily Mantras by Shannon Kaiser, link below
The compliments on your body don’t equal health.
Are you going to suffer internally to have a “good” body?
Where do you get your...
