This week, we're talking to Betsy Archer of All Bodies Movement and Wellness in Asheville, NC. We had the pleasure of speaking with Betsy about how her career as a fitness professional was molded by experiencing the negative effects of diet culture as a young athlete and into adulthood, and how she aims to provide a movement space (both in-person locally here in Asheville and online) that is accessible for all bodies; all sizes, all shapes, all abilities, all backgrounds, and all interests.
Betsy is a Health at Every Size-aligned and trauma-informed personal trainer and mental health therapist, as well as owner of All Bodies Movement and Wellness, a personal and small group movement studio where the focus is on helping people heal their relationship with their bodies and building a sustainable, accessible, and intentional movement practice that helps them feel better. All Bodies Movement and Wellness is actively anti-racist, trans positive, queer positive, fat positive and pro love.
And we also want to let you know that All Bodies Movement and Wellness has been selected as a top-6 finalist to receive a $10,000 impact grant in partnership with The BodCon! The BodCon is 1-day virtual conference focused on body confidence and radical self-acceptance, and they are partnering with RBC Bank to provide an organization with funds to further their work towards body confidence and empowerment. If the grant is awarded to All Bodies Movement and Wellness, it will be used to start an equity fund to help make personal and group training (online and locally in-person) more financially accessible to anyone, and to move into a larger studio space to serve more people. The grant is awarded based on a voting system so we would love for all of our Satisfaction Factor podcast listeners to go vote for All Bodies Movement and Wellness here: https://thebodcon.com/thebodcon2022. Voting closes on Friday Feb 25th at midnight and just takes a few seconds to do!
You can find learn more about Betsy and All Bodies Movement and Wellness on Instagram @allbodiesmovement, on their website allbodiesmovement.com, or by emailing allbodiesmovement@gmail.com.
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