This week, Executive Director, Shanna Schulze, and board member, Shanna Covey, sit down with fellow board member and SoLive Wellness Partner, Tracey Keller, to talk about her work as an eating psychology coach, life coach and personal trainer.
What sets Tracey apart from other personal trainers is her background in eating psychology. Instead of approaching health and fitness solely from the physical elements of monitoring and adjusting what we put into the body and how we expend the calories we consume, Tracey works with the emotional body to understand where a client is coming from in their desire to change the body. In doing so, she teaches her clients how to come into more self-love and innate worthiness. She empowers her clients to enjoy the process of transformation by first accepting who they are no matter how the body looks. She teaches them to be grateful for all the ways their body has served and continues to serve them. In bringing clients into deeper self-love and appreciation, she’s helping them heal any untrue thoughts they’ve picked up in their life experience. By helping clients heal their emotional body, the desired physical changes flow more naturally from this healed space. When you come from already loving yourself, it’s much easier to make choices that support the body’s functioning (versus trying to punish it into submission). She says the body is simply responding to us. If we’re cursing it, it’ll rise to the curse. Alternatively, if we’re loving it, it’ll rise to love and appreciation. This inside out approach to change (versus an outside in approach), allows for longer lasting change in her client’s desired outcome. It also creates a greater sense of inner peace, where striving to manipulate the body is no longer used to feel a sense of peace.
As mentioned in the episode, you can hear Tracey’s personal story in Shanna Covey’s podcast, Always Shine Brightly on Episode 11: The Barbie Illusion w/ Tracey Keller (link: http://bit.ly/2TZHVWs)
Tracey works passionately with clients on navigating their relationship with food and movement, helping them set up practices that lead to success in their highest calling. As an eating psychology coach, she shares an exciting and cutting edge approach to food and eating. This approach effectively addresses weight concerns, binge eating, overeating, body image challenges and various nutrition-related health concerns. Her approach is positive and empowering. She doesn’t see eating challenges merely as a sign that “something is wrong with you” – but as a place where one can more fully explore some of the personal dimensions of life that impact food, weight, athletic performance and health. To book sessions or speaking engagements contact, visit Tracey's SoLive Wellness Partner's page for more detail.
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Shanna Schulze is a corporate &franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as our Executive Director. Shanna Covey is the author of A Call to the Heart. She is a life coach and founding board member with SoLive.
