When I'm in the body I want, THEN I'll take better care of myself- I'll break away from macros, I'll stop forcing myself to eat and workout a certain way, and I'll start listneing to my body."  That's the way most people relate to achieving the body they want: When everything is perfect, THEN I can relax and not try so hard.  This way of thinking will NEVER work for women over 35. Which is why diets don't work. Tune into this episode to hear a different, more revolutionary approach to creating the body you want.   "How different would your body look and feel if your body it had ..read more

Are you a woman over 30 that works out a lot but doesn't see the results she's been hoping for? If so, you're not alone. In fact, this is the case with most of my clients when they first come to me.  And one thing is for sure: working harder in the gym or being more controlling with your food will NOT help.  In this episode, Natalie dives into why so many women struggle to see results from all their effort around exercise and food, and exactly what to do about it.  "If you want to lose weight, you have to stop following diet plans and workout plans. You have to take a completely ..read more

Do you find yourself reaching for food when you're stressed? Or bored? Do you keep thinking that the food is the issue? Do you keep thinking you just need to not eat until 12pm? Or not bring certain foods into the house if you want to lose weight?  As a result of restricting food, do you keep finding yourself in a perpetual cycle of depriving and overindulging? Well, here's the thing... FOOD IS NOT THE ISSUE. In this episode, Natalie breaks down what the real problem is and how to fix it.  If stress eating, boredom eating, mindless eating has been a struggle for you, you're gonna wan ..read more

Do you feel the need to constantly go-go-go? Always doing things 24/7? If so, there's a reason for this. And it's not because of your schedule, or your kids or your responsibilities.  In this episode, Natalie shares some key concepts that will allow you to be productive AND enjoy life more, and not feel the need to constantly be efforting your way through your day. "So sometimes there's some shame around being joyful or playful or relaxing. There's some shame around being seen as enjoying yourself. It's like the shame of allowing yourself pleasure, the shame of allowing yourself to be hap ..read more

Ever wondered why it's so hard for you to stick to a plan longer than a couple weeks?  You set a goal of the body you want. You get really excited about it. You say "this is gonna be the one". You start the plan, but when the passion and excitement wears off, you fall back into your daily food and exercise habits. You think you just don't have the discipline or the willpower, or the right plan, or mabe you think there's something wrong with your body... none of that is true. You have it all. Your body is perfect. Even the plan is perfect. The problem lies in the reason you're doing the pl ..read more

Do you trust yourself? Do you trust yourself enough to have chocolate in the house ? Do you trust yourself enough to rest when your body needs it ? Do you trust yourself enough to say no to things you don't want to do?  A big topic that comes up when we talk about creating vitality in the body is learning how to trust ourselves again- how to trust our hunger, our cravings, and our need for rest.  Most people don't trust their body to tell them what the right decision is around food, movement, and rest. Which is why people go to coaches, to tell them what to do.  Learning from a ..read more

Have you ever wondered why you lose control with food? Or why you have that day where you feel like you've been ran over by a truck?  In this episode, Natalie shares why that happens and why being super disciplined with your food and training may not be as helpful as the dieting world makes it out to be.  We try to control our food, our training, our daily schedule and forcing ourselves to stick to the plan. And it's this need to control that always leads us to swinging out of control, and then losing trust in ourselves.  An important part to making fitness a lifestyle is learni ..read more

It's so easy to get caught up in thinking that "when I have the body I want, THEN I'll be happy." But it doesn't work like that. You may experience short-term gratification when you achieve the body you want, but it's only a matter of time until you feel empty inside again.  And the truth is, needing a particular body to feel happy is often the very thing that keeps women from achieving the body they're after because it creates attachment. Attachment to the body creates worry and fear of losing the body (obsessing over food, calories, step count, scale weight). Living in this constant wor ..read more

The way to feel more passion for life or peace in your life is to feel it. Emotions can be trained just like muscles. The more we feel peace in our lives, the stronger it gets. So the way we train happiness is to feel it. In fact, happiness is our natural state.  However, most people are not aware of how they are so quick to give up their happiness. They allow the smallest things to shake them and cause them to not feel great- from an email that comes in, or how their clothes fit, or if somebody walks on their floor with dirty shoes.  In this episode, Natalie shares practical approac ..read more

Intuition is the key to being fit while having freedom in your life- freedom from all the diet rules and diet structures that so many women get stuck in. But so many women have lost their abilty to feel because they've been so conditioned by society to trust 'the plan' instead of themselves. This dependency on macros, meal plans, dieting apps, and diet coaches is the reason why women struggle to create the body and life they want - especially as they get older. In this episode, Natalie shares why intuition is so important when it comes to creating the body you want and how feeling good is the ..read more