11. Dr Vanessa Bogle ON cultivating a nourishing relationship with your body, exercise, and movement.

The Nourishing Wisdom Podcast with Dr Natalie Chua

How we can begin to cultivate a more sustainable and truly nourishing relationship with our body, ourselves, and exercise when we are bombarded with messages, from left, right, and centre, around how we ought to eat, how we ought to look, and how much we ought to exercise? How can we begin to love ourselves up, and meet ourselves in a more compassionate way, when we are struggling with a poor body image day? These are just some of the questions that Dr Vanessa Bogle and I explore in this episode.

What else you can expect to learn from this episode:

· How Vanessa's previous career in the health and fitness industry inspired her to retrain and become a psychologist specializing in eating disorders.

· Why focusing purely on weight loss steals from the joy and other benefits of being physically active.

· How understanding the motivation behind why you are moving your body can help you improve your relationship with exercising and yourself.

· What motivates Vanessa to move her body.

· Why discovering a variety of ways to self-soothe is important.

· Indicators that you are over-exercising or have an unhelpful relationship with exercise.

· Why it’s important that you find ways to move that is fun

· Why the ‘no pain no gain’ mentality is harmful.

· Vanessa’s relationship with her body, and the impact the health and fitness industry had on her body image.

· Why making health assumptions and commenting on someone else’s body based on how someone looks is discriminatory and unhelpful

· How living in a society that places so much emphasis on appearance creates body dissatisfaction.

· How to stand up for yourself and protect yourself from body shaming or unsolicited comments from well-meaning friends, relatives, and even fitness instructors.

· What is body image, and what external influences negatively impact the way we see our bodies and experience our sense of self?

· Why accurately identifying and labelling how you are feeling is essential in overcoming ‘feeling fat’.

· How Vanessa copes with a poor body image day.

· What she would tell her younger self.

About Dr Vanessa Bogle:

Dr Vanessa Bogle is the Founder of Innovative Health. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), on the BPS register of Coaching Psychologists and is an Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the BPS. She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Health Psychologist. She is also a Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP accredited) and has a Master Practitioner Diploma in Eating Disorders and Obesity. She is a qualified exercise professional and has a BSc(Hons) in Fitness and Health. She is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

She has held various roles within the NHS spanning 18 years, including working clinically in primary and secondary care setting and in health promotion/public health roles, in addition to working clinically in private practice.

Follow Vanessa on Instagram @drvanessabogle, and visit her website here: https://www.innovative-health.uk/

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