Moving through Midlife | Helping Midlife Women Move Better and Feel Better
Struggling to move without pain, lack mobility as you get older, or feel like you can't lose weight in menopause?
If you have recently looked at yourself in the mirror and didn't recognize the person looking back at you, this podcast is for you. If you are overwhelmed, feeling burnt out, and moving through perimenopause or menopause this podcast is for you. If you feel as if you need to slow down, take a softer approach towards movement due to minor aches and pains or an auto-immune diagnosis this podcast is for you.
In this podcast we will discuss ways we can show up better for ourselves without the burn out. We will focus on overall health to help increase energy, provide movement snacks to help you move better throughout the day, and learn from professionals on moving through midlife and an auto-immune diagnosis with ease and grace.
Hi, I'm Courtney a business owner and mom of 3 who was rushing through life with my head down busy doing the day-to-day tasks while building my business. I was so caught up in the doing that I was no longer being. I remember taking a moment to look at myself in the mirror one day as I was getting ready and actually SAW myself for the first time in years. I was so surprised to see the woman looking back at me.
Time had changed me, I was so busy during that time that I didn't see who I was becoming. I was a midlife mom with grey hair, wrinkles, fine lines, and saggy skin. I made a decision that day to stop rushing through life, honor my body and who I had become and accept the aging process. I began to practice leaning into a softer way of living. Slow down and simplify to feel better, become more confident, and enjoy where I am now with my family.
If you are struggling with midlife this podcast is for you.
We will discuss:
-how to lose the low belly pooch
-what diet is best
-regain confidence in perimenopause or menopause
-gut health
-stop the sugar cravings
-movement for aches and pains
-movement and healing with Multiple Sclerosis
-auto immune health
-help lose the midsection weight gain
-interviews with professionals in midlife health and wellness
-along with some parenting teen tips sprinkled in throughout
Grab your shoes, pop in your ear buds, and join me for a leisurely walk while we discuss Moving through Midlife.
Moving through Midlife | Helping Midlife Women Move Better and Feel Better
Ep 12.2: Movement Snack-Align in your Car
Practice this quick alignment tip while you are driving in your car.
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Whether you are going on a family road trip, or just driving throughout your town, I want this movement stack to be about driving in your car. So if you haven't already listened to the last podcast, Episode 12, I recommend you at least go listen to the first part of it because I talk you through all sorts of things in regards to alignment while driving. And the reason this is important is, if you're driving for any distance, you will usually tend to be in certain positions for a period of time. And when you do that, you can deal with aches and pains from being in those positions. So make sure you listen to that to kind of help guide you through different things that you might be dealing with on a regular basis. And then for our movement snack, I want you to focus on something other than what I mentioned in the last podcast. And that is the moment you get in your car, I want you to think about lengthening through your spine. So if we think about the back of our spine, up through the back of our head, we want to lengthen up that way. And then I want you to go and move your mirror, rear view mirror, so that you can see correctly with your body in that lengthen state. And then as you start to drive, many of us will start to kind of slouch down and get relaxed. And the minute you can no longer see in that rearview mirror, instead of taking that rearview mirror and moving it to back to a comfortable place to where you are now sitting. No, no. Let's work on our posture. Let's work on lengthening back up so that our body is able to see in the mirror. Now things you need to focus on when you're lengthening backup, make sure that you don't have too much of an anterior pelvic tilt. And if you don't know what I'm talking about that make sure to head to my form fit mom community. And I have five days of hip and pelvis work in there. And I discuss how to figure out if you have a posterior or anterior pelvic tilt, and then exercises and structures that you can do if you notice that you're in one or the other position for periods of time. So make sure you are not in that sway back that anterior pelvic tilt too much and then lengthen up through the shoulders and through the back of the head thinking about lengthening that body at nice and tall, tucking that chin down to relax, and then always bringing that head back towards the headrest. And that should help you feel really tall in your car. And I just feel like if you can keep that rear view mirror at that position, then every time you get into your car, rather than moving it that's the key is you can't then change the rearview mirror look and make sure that you're sitting up nice and tall, like you were the last time you got in the vehicle. And that's just gonna help you with your posture while you're driving in the car. So that is my tip. It's a real quick one this morning. I hope you all have an amazing week. Let me know how you're feeling in your vehicle tries a few things that I mentioned about your posture with your foot placement, your head placement, your ribs, and then with this sitting taller in your chair