May 30, 2025 • 22 mins
Feeling overwhelmed by life’s chaos and struggling to stay committed to your health journey? You’re not alone. In this raw and real episode of the Aligned & Elevated Podcast, Dr. Allison Feldt, PT, DPT and founder of Body Motion PT, gets honest about falling off track, navigating mental burnout, and the powerful practice of recommitting—even when life feels like a mess.
🎙️ From mom life to business pressures, from macros to mindset—Dr. Allison shares her vulnerable experience of getting back on the wagon and why restarting is where real growth happens.
✨ What You’ll Learn:
Whether you’re a busy mom, on your own health journey, or just trying to figure out how to keep going—you’ll find clarity, connection, and inspiration in this episode.
💬 Share in the comments: What’s one thing your future self is doing—and how will you show up for her today?
🔗 Learn more: www.bodymotionpt.com
#AlignedAndElevated #WellnessJourney #PelvicFloorPT #SelfCommitment #HealthyHabits #BodyMotionPT #WomenInWellness #ChaosToClarity #FutureSelf #ResilientLiving #MotivationForMoms
🎙️ From mom life to business pressures, from macros to mindset—Dr. Allison shares her vulnerable experience of getting back on the wagon and why restarting is where real growth happens.
✨ What You’ll Learn:
- How to stay committed to your wellness in seasons of stress
- Why perfection isn’t the goal—resilience is
- How to reframe “failure” and use it to fuel your future
- The power of visualizing your future self and aligning your daily actions with her
- Simple mindset shifts and strategies to help you realign with your goals
Whether you’re a busy mom, on your own health journey, or just trying to figure out how to keep going—you’ll find clarity, connection, and inspiration in this episode.
💬 Share in the comments: What’s one thing your future self is doing—and how will you show up for her today?
🔗 Learn more: www.bodymotionpt.com
#AlignedAndElevated #WellnessJourney #PelvicFloorPT #SelfCommitment #HealthyHabits #BodyMotionPT #WomenInWellness #ChaosToClarity #FutureSelf #ResilientLiving #MotivationForMoms
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of the Aligned and Elevated Podcast.
I'm your host, doctor Allison Felt, owner of Body Motion,
Physical Therapy, mom of three and all things health, wellness
and healthy floor. And you know, it's so funny that
we changed the name of the podcast to Aligned and Elevated,
which absolutely has been the life I've been wanting to live,
(00:23):
striving to live, and it felt like it was such
a good match when we changed.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The name of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I can tell you, for the last like month
since we changed the name of the podcast, I have
felt anything but fucking aligned and elevated, Like.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I have felt trash, like you know, and that's okay.
The mission.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The goal is like continued to strive for being aligned
in your life and making changes in you know, all
that stuff, to be aligned and be your true authentic self.
Because when you're your true authentic self, then you have
you can serve and deliver your goods to the world
and make the world a better place, right at least
that's what I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And so it's just.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Actually completely and utterly comical that we changed the name
to the podcast, and my mojo has just fucking tanked
since we changed the name.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Part in the profanity. But even like the last week,
I would say it has been super hard. And you know,
I've been on this health journey for really. I mean
Jalen's almost four in July, so it had been on this.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Health journey for a while.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And this is the last six days were the first
days where I was just kind of like f it,
forget everything, like let's eat out, let's have dessert, let's
not track anything. My body fell trash, like I just
and it was even like hard for me to get
to the gym. And when my diets on on a
lot of times are like I'm overeating, I'm just like
(01:54):
so inflamed and I don't even want to get my
workouts in. And I still forced myself to get to
the gym. But two days ago before I had like
my first like quote unquote clean day or day on
my Macros, I literally like was on the way to
the gym and I was like, I just want my
coffee because my coffee machine was broken, so I couldn't
even have like a regular cup of caffeine. And I
(02:17):
am on my way at the gym and I almost
turn around because I'm like I just need to go
get coffee and I'll go sit at home. But I'm like, Okay,
that's not the mindset that is going to help me
feel aligned and freaking elevated. So get your shit together
and keep driving to the gym and just get the
job done. Right, So what happens when our life is
complete and out our chaos and the reality is like
(02:39):
women in their thirties and forties, like our lives are
freaking chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It doesn't get easier when you have kids. Once you
have kids and you have you're in You're just in a.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Complete state of chaos and stress, and that's your status quo.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So then you have to be okay with that being
your status quo.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And then as I'm like seeing friends like actually have
to like kind of deal with parent issues or other
family stressors.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Like it's just never ending.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And so if you don't put yourself first and you
don't decide to like live that healthy life now, like
you're gonna be kind of screwed because there's gonna be
no better time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Like that's the problem with it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I guess. And anyways, so it's kind of comical. So
I had like these crappy six days and I was
really in my head about it. And as you might know,
I have af in this coaching which is a group
of women and we all are on this health path
and health journey and just living fully aligned, you know,
getting our workouts, in getting our sets, in getting our
macros in and also like striving for prosperity and joy
(03:41):
and fulfillment and just living amazing lives. And we have
a pretty epic community that we do this with, right
and so here I am being like the last six days,
the real like negative nancies in my head came out
and they were like, Alston, what do you think you're doing?
Like you are a politic expert physical go stay in
(04:01):
your lane, do that? Why are you trying to shift?
And like, also do this wellness coaching when like you
obviously don't even have your shit together, And those voices
are actually like, right on, I'm doing this wellness coaching
like straight up selfishly. The community that we have keeps
bringing me back to my path. It's just been what
(04:22):
has evolved in the universe from being a public expert
physical therapist helping women get pregnant, through pregnancy, through postpartum
and develop really strong healthy bodies and cores and then
to keep us on track.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's what a wellness coaching is. It's to keep us
on track.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yes, is your monthly public floor maintenance still an absolute,
non negotiable hands down, absolutely, you know, is shockwave and
EMTT and red light still amazing recovery tools, and like
keeping your body pain free?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Hands down? Absolutely so is masage shows acupunctures. So I
was chiropractic.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's like, whatever your tools are to keep your body functioning,
that's what you're gonna do. And obviously, like palvic floors
should be the center of that because it is the
center of your core, and a lot of times we
have we can't just like necessarily stretch that ourselves, and
it tends to get tighter with stress, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I am on a total tangent because that is not
where I wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Where I wanted to go is like all these voices
in my head came out to be like, Elison, what
are you even doing?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
An expert when you yourself can't even keep your shit together?
And those voices are beautiful because now I'm sitting here
sharing about it, and you know, sure like none of
us actually really have the answers, Right, we just look
at other people's paths and try to divulge, and not
(05:51):
even divulge, but try to gather different tools that have
worked for them. The point of me having this podcast
is to show up as authentically and cute as myself,
like there, I don't want to hide things from you,
because I think that does a disservice. The girls on
my on the one's called Yesterday, I was, you know,
(06:13):
I told them about these thoughts I had, and they
were like, actually, like it's it would be really discouraging
if you just showed up and you were like, yeah,
I hit my macros every single day last week, no problems,
went to the gym, got everything in checked every single
freaking box, no problem. But like, that's just not life.
Life is that we fall off and we have to
get back one And so I was listening to my
(06:37):
book the other day and I think it's called The
Wealth The Witch is Wealth, Wealth Witch.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know. I can't remember the name of the book.
Maybe we'll drop it in the comments if we can
get the name of it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And one of the most epic things that was notated
in the book and that she talked about was like
actually it was all in regards to prosperity and like
holding money and getting money, and she talked about like, okay,
people are constantly attracting money when they learn how to
cast the spells to attract money, and then they lose
(07:10):
the money. They cast the spells to get more money,
and then they lose the money. They can't just find
this status quo of holding the money you And she
was like that takes practice and it can be really
annoying for many years, and like the same is true
with weight loss. The same is true with the health journey, right,
Like we are continually on this pendulum of like okay,
(07:31):
we lost this weight, or we got a little bit
more healthy, or we got a little bit stronger, we
feel really good.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay, we fall off, then we get back on, and there's.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Actually nothing fucking wrong with that, okay, Like we've been
trying to be like okay, that diet must not be
working for you, or you know, the marketing is so
real like and now obviously like there's just like don't
even worry about the diet, let's just take the pill.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And the reality is like it's.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay to fall off your health and get back on
your health train. It's okay to gain some way back
and then just get back on and lose that weight again.
And what the Wealth which was saying is, she's like,
it's not the close. The more that you actually practice
getting back on, the closer you are to attaining that
constant path.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's the practice and getting back on.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We're not gonna always just be like hitting our goals
and hitting our steps or hitting everything right and checking
the boxes. Ideal, yes, absolutely, but the reality is it's
like there's gonna be days, there's gonna be weeks where
you maybe go on vacation, or you maybe fall off,
or you're maybe with someone in the hospital that week,
(08:43):
like and you just can't prioritize yourself. And that's okay,
But the mission is always get back on. And now
if the stress is gonna last more than a few
days or more than a few weeks, like, we got
to figure out a way to like at least get
you some kind of form of health within those phases.
And that's I think I think the magic is like, okay,
what can I do now?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Then Like, Okay, I'm in the hospital, I can't.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Get to the gym every day, but I can walk
laps around my hospital bed.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I remember when keno my he's gonna be eight here.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He was hospitalized with osteomilitis and I was on my
fitness journey and.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
On my health journey.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I had all my food prepped and all my food packed,
and for me, a huge trigger for overeating and just
like kind of saying, fuck it is stress, stress and
lack of sleep number one triggers for me to just
be like, fuck it, I'm going all I'm going off
my macros right. And I remember being in the hospital
with him, and I was like, and I was heading
on for so I'd been so good with my nutrition.
(09:42):
I was like, but I didn't have any food prepped
when we had like got admitted to the hospital. And
I was stressed about that, and I'm like, shoot, what
am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What am I gonna do? I remember trying to hit
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I remember like switching out with my husband to try
and go get some food for myself.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And then and I was like, and I gotta get
hit at my steps in the day.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And so I was like walking around his hospital bed
and like, just like you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know, you're on the hospital.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's boring as I'll get out right and you're just
do you just do what you can and I, you know,
at some point during that stress event, I was like, fuck,
it went off the macros.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But at least I got my steps in right.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's a little bit of give and take and the
and and I remember it took me like a week
to get back on, like I was thinking, it was
just the you know, stress of the situation. It took
me a week to get back to like counting my
macros and really being on point and on my journey,
on my health journey. And at that time that mission
was weight loss and so and getting stronger, but really
it's hard to prioritize both, right, So really it was
(10:39):
a fat loss situation for me.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And so it was a that that's just the lesson.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's like the more you do it, the stronger you get,
and hopefully you learn the lessons like I'm learning my triggers,
Like I know that I am super at risk today
to go off my macros and I just have to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Be super cognizant of it and hopefully get a nap in.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I woke up with my mind racing at two am
and just couldn't I couldn't turn it off, and so
in order for me to like really make it through
this day, I'm cognizant of Okay, I've been super sleep
deprived today, but I still got my workout, my food
is prepped, I have everything I need.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Things are in a good place.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But Alison probably needs a nap in order to recharge
that will power battery in order to make it through
the evening. And then I'm like, okay, I'm also fanning
out the evening, and I'm like, okay, I'll be best
if I'm out of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So I should take my daughter to soccer practice.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And at soccer practice, I can get mye I can
get more steps in and that will at least take
me out of the house. And then right when I
get home, I can probably go to bed. And so
these are the things. This is like the soliloquy of
how I'm trying to set myself up. I know my
triggers have happened. I couldn't control that trying to get
the best sleep. I could even took my oshabanda last night,
trying to get back on the train with the oshuganda,
(11:57):
and it just was not working for.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Me, and so got out of bed at like three thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But I know I've set myself up to be super
tired today, and so again willpower is gonna be really
really tested.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So it's that acknowledgment of.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Like knowing your triggers, knowing just learning about yourself and
your behaviors. You're never expected to be absolutely perfect, right,
and it's in the imperfection where a.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Lot of that success is gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I've talked on different episodes about like being consistent, being
disciplined and all that shit really really matters. But also
it matters that, like we are these human lives that
we are gonna live that are chaotic and have stressors,
and we are gonna fall off, and you just get
stronger and closer to achieving There's no endgame, right, so
(12:48):
there's no achievement really, but you get closer to achieving
that success the more that you put yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Back on that path, and when you surround yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
With people that are living those similar lives, that's really
beneficial because then that is that accountability to get back on.
I mean, that's what the AA wellness coaching is for me.
It's literally my own accountability to continue to be on
this pursuit of living a healthy life, and honestly, it's
the pursuit of body motion and what I stand for
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and creating this mission and helping women live pain free,
live without joint and replacements, live without being their pants
so they can be ethically fulfilled and that can spark
creativity in them in order to help bring joy to
their lives. And then when they have creativity and joy energy,
then they find their own unique missions that they bring
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to the world, their own services that they bring to
the world, and in that service, they're making the world
a better place.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And so it's this beautiful evolution of how it's all
connected and how all these humans are connected on Earth,
and the better we feel, the more we can create,
the better we can make the world a better place.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I digress, staying on your health.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Journey, I know I'm a little all over the place,
maybe if that's the lack of sleep, but I wanted
to share all this in just like a super authentic form.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I did, like write out.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
My outline of this podcast, and so it's it's kind
of comical because they never flow in the same.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Way that I absolutely that I write them out. But
I think it's a it's it's fun to share.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And before I like dive into something to help you
get back on the track of being on your health journey,
I want to just say that I had a really
good conversation with my husband in Phoenix a couple months ago,
and I was kind of down on myself when we
were on this vacation. I was like, it's weird that
I can't like self regulate my food intake when we're
(14:40):
on vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's kind of like I get into a scarcity mindset
around food and I'm just like, oh, yeah, I give
it to me. We're on vacation, who cares. And then
I never feel that good because I'm like, I wasn't
eating to like feel good.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I was eating to like consume and taste and YadA, YadA, YadA,
And there are simple pleasures and like good pleasures in that,
but it can.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Overdone real, real freaking fast.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And so I remember him being like, you know, even
professional athletes, even professional athletes will go on vendors for
like a couple of weeks after the season or a
couple of weeks during the season, you know. And then
because he grew up playing with some guys that are
in the NHL playing hockey and and they'll destroy their
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bodies and then they come back and get back to trading.
And so it's it's a constant, you know, wave of
being on and being off and that's actually okay, and
the success lies within coming back. And something I read
in that in the Witchy book that I was talking
(15:46):
about earlier is for adults to feel for anyone to
achieve success, you actually have to strive for failure and
you have to put yourself in scary ass situations that
are gonna push you and and push you. And then
the more you fail, the more you're going to learn
those lessons. So it's like every time you fall off,
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you learn those lessons. Well, I'll call is a good example.
When you overdrink and you get to like throw up status,
you learn the next day, I don't want to do
that again, So then you might take some time away
from alcohol and you know, you don't think about your
like I don't actually want to touch it now, you know, or.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You'll be more careful next time.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Like it's the same thing, right, It's the same thing
as food and going off your food or you know,
hurting yourself with food, and so we're just constantly learning.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And the idea is that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We learn and we don't go just on a vendor
the next night, or at least not for a few weeks.
Right that we're constantly coming back to the path. And
as we continually come back to the path, it just
makes us stronger and stronger and stronger.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Something I touch on a lot in our wellness.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Community is decide who you want to become. So who
is future Allison? Who is Allison one year from now?
And totally allowed to reinvent that person. So what you're
looking at now I invented three years ago. I knew
I was going to be doing these podcasts. I knew
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I wanted to be in a different body. I knew
this is what I was going to look like. I'm
now inventing what I'm going to be next year. What
is Alison going to be in July twenty twenty six
when she photy That's what I'm inventing now.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And so.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's a fun place to get creative. And what am
I wearing? Men, Where am I vacationing? What is my
dream life? What are the daily activities of my dream life?
For me, it wouldn't matter if, like whatever, half of
my life, my dream life consists of getting my morning movement,
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it consists of drinking my morning coffee. It consists of
writing in a nice, fancy car. And so these are
the future things. And I already know what car that is.
And so in that car even showed up at the
hockey rink the other night after I was got off
the ice, it was parked right next to me. I
took a picture of the car. I think I need
to just go buy the car. I think that's a sign.
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But I've never bought a luxury vehicle brand new and
I so I'm still like getting used to that thought.
But that's a I'm holding myself back in those thought patterns.
And so I just need to go do it so
I can become aligned and elevated. Right, just decide you're
going to do it, and it will all fall into place.
Of course, you need to have money for it and
(18:39):
all the good stuff. But a lot of times when
we decide something, we will make it work. So yeah,
I'm real close to pull on that trigger. But where
I was saying with that is like really deciding who
you're going to become. So who is Alison at forty
in July twenty twenty six. What is she wearing? What
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is she doing a daily basis? How is she finding
your fulfillment, her joy? What is she basking in that
feels really really good? What activities is she doing? Who
are her friends? What does she you know, where's she vacationing?
And these are the things that I'm creating and mapping
out so that every single activity I do today is
completely in line with that future person. That is completely
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all the actions are creating and mapping out that future person.
And I think that's where the magic often comes. Is
you can't just become who you want to become without action.
But once you decide you're going to be that person
and you do all those actions that's going to get
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you there, then you become that person.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So be do then become you know, It's really that simple.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And I hope that you take this message and if
you are living in a bit of chaos right now
and having a hard time getting your mojo back, hopefully
this is just the sign that, like everybody has hard times,
every fucking influencer you follow online that shouts that their
life is like gloriously magnificent. They have hard fucking times. Like,
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it's not all roses. The human condition has ups and downs.
So to ignore the downs and not see the downs
in other people's lives might sometimes be like, why am
I having these downs? Why am I having these like
negative thoughts? What is my problem?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
This person only always only has positive thoughts.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's just not the reality, right, Like it's what we're
seeing online and it really contains our reality, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's not true. That's not real. Everybody's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
If you don't have freakin' lows, then you don't have highs,
And that's one boring ass life. I would not want
to live so little food for thought. Allow yourself to
learn all the lessons and the lows, and just have
complete and utter faith that you're gonna hit the highs
when you get there. Like if you're in a low
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state or in a bad energy state, just do anything
you can to follow back to the path. So if
you haven't got a workout in a year, just start
getting a workout in.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Start with some squads, start with some movement.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And there is so much endless content on YouTube, Like
just pick something on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Do the little workout right. It's simple. I know it
sounds super.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Hard, but you don't have to be all in or
all off, like, just start making certain decisions maybe one,
maybe two, that bring you closer back to your health path,
that brings you closer to your future self, that allow
you to make those actionable changes to be that new
identity that you've created, that you've mapped out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So little food for thought.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
On this glorious sunny day in Edmunds, Washington. I wish
you the most ethic journey, and it's okay if it's
a little fucked up too.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Take care
Welcome to another episode of the Aligned and Elevated Podcast.
I'm your host, doctor Allison Felt, owner of Body Motion,
Physical Therapy, mom of three and all things health, wellness
and healthy floor. And you know, it's so funny that
we changed the name of the podcast to Aligned and Elevated,
which absolutely has been the life I've been wanting to live,
(00:23):
striving to live, and it felt like it was such
a good match when we changed.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The name of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I can tell you, for the last like month
since we changed the name of the podcast, I have
felt anything but fucking aligned and elevated, Like.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I have felt trash, like you know, and that's okay.
The mission.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The goal is like continued to strive for being aligned
in your life and making changes in you know, all
that stuff, to be aligned and be your true authentic self.
Because when you're your true authentic self, then you have
you can serve and deliver your goods to the world
and make the world a better place, right at least
that's what I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And so it's just.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Actually completely and utterly comical that we changed the name
to the podcast, and my mojo has just fucking tanked
since we changed the name.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Part in the profanity. But even like the last week,
I would say it has been super hard. And you know,
I've been on this health journey for really. I mean
Jalen's almost four in July, so it had been on this.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Health journey for a while.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And this is the last six days were the first
days where I was just kind of like f it,
forget everything, like let's eat out, let's have dessert, let's
not track anything. My body fell trash, like I just
and it was even like hard for me to get
to the gym. And when my diets on on a
lot of times are like I'm overeating, I'm just like
(01:54):
so inflamed and I don't even want to get my
workouts in. And I still forced myself to get to
the gym. But two days ago before I had like
my first like quote unquote clean day or day on
my Macros, I literally like was on the way to
the gym and I was like, I just want my
coffee because my coffee machine was broken, so I couldn't
even have like a regular cup of caffeine. And I
(02:17):
am on my way at the gym and I almost
turn around because I'm like I just need to go
get coffee and I'll go sit at home. But I'm like, Okay,
that's not the mindset that is going to help me
feel aligned and freaking elevated. So get your shit together
and keep driving to the gym and just get the
job done. Right, So what happens when our life is
complete and out our chaos and the reality is like
(02:39):
women in their thirties and forties, like our lives are
freaking chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It doesn't get easier when you have kids. Once you
have kids and you have you're in You're just in a.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Complete state of chaos and stress, and that's your status quo.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So then you have to be okay with that being
your status quo.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And then as I'm like seeing friends like actually have
to like kind of deal with parent issues or other
family stressors.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Like it's just never ending.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And so if you don't put yourself first and you
don't decide to like live that healthy life now, like
you're gonna be kind of screwed because there's gonna be
no better time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Like that's the problem with it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I guess. And anyways, so it's kind of comical. So
I had like these crappy six days and I was
really in my head about it. And as you might know,
I have af in this coaching which is a group
of women and we all are on this health path
and health journey and just living fully aligned, you know,
getting our workouts, in getting our sets, in getting our
macros in and also like striving for prosperity and joy
(03:41):
and fulfillment and just living amazing lives. And we have
a pretty epic community that we do this with, right
and so here I am being like the last six days,
the real like negative nancies in my head came out
and they were like, Alston, what do you think you're doing?
Like you are a politic expert physical go stay in
(04:01):
your lane, do that? Why are you trying to shift?
And like, also do this wellness coaching when like you
obviously don't even have your shit together, And those voices
are actually like, right on, I'm doing this wellness coaching
like straight up selfishly. The community that we have keeps
bringing me back to my path. It's just been what
(04:22):
has evolved in the universe from being a public expert
physical therapist helping women get pregnant, through pregnancy, through postpartum
and develop really strong healthy bodies and cores and then
to keep us on track.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's what a wellness coaching is. It's to keep us
on track.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yes, is your monthly public floor maintenance still an absolute,
non negotiable hands down, absolutely, you know, is shockwave and
EMTT and red light still amazing recovery tools, and like
keeping your body pain free?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Hands down? Absolutely so is masage shows acupunctures. So I
was chiropractic.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's like, whatever your tools are to keep your body functioning,
that's what you're gonna do. And obviously, like palvic floors
should be the center of that because it is the
center of your core, and a lot of times we
have we can't just like necessarily stretch that ourselves, and
it tends to get tighter with stress, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I am on a total tangent because that is not
where I wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Where I wanted to go is like all these voices
in my head came out to be like, Elison, what
are you even doing?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
An expert when you yourself can't even keep your shit together?
And those voices are beautiful because now I'm sitting here
sharing about it, and you know, sure like none of
us actually really have the answers, Right, we just look
at other people's paths and try to divulge, and not
(05:51):
even divulge, but try to gather different tools that have
worked for them. The point of me having this podcast
is to show up as authentically and cute as myself,
like there, I don't want to hide things from you,
because I think that does a disservice. The girls on
my on the one's called Yesterday, I was, you know,
(06:13):
I told them about these thoughts I had, and they
were like, actually, like it's it would be really discouraging
if you just showed up and you were like, yeah,
I hit my macros every single day last week, no problems,
went to the gym, got everything in checked every single
freaking box, no problem. But like, that's just not life.
Life is that we fall off and we have to
get back one And so I was listening to my
(06:37):
book the other day and I think it's called The
Wealth The Witch is Wealth, Wealth Witch.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know. I can't remember the name of the book.
Maybe we'll drop it in the comments if we can
get the name of it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And one of the most epic things that was notated
in the book and that she talked about was like
actually it was all in regards to prosperity and like
holding money and getting money, and she talked about like, okay,
people are constantly attracting money when they learn how to
cast the spells to attract money, and then they lose
(07:10):
the money. They cast the spells to get more money,
and then they lose the money. They can't just find
this status quo of holding the money you And she
was like that takes practice and it can be really
annoying for many years, and like the same is true
with weight loss. The same is true with the health journey, right,
Like we are continually on this pendulum of like okay,
(07:31):
we lost this weight, or we got a little bit
more healthy, or we got a little bit stronger, we
feel really good.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay, we fall off, then we get back on, and there's.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Actually nothing fucking wrong with that, okay, Like we've been
trying to be like okay, that diet must not be
working for you, or you know, the marketing is so
real like and now obviously like there's just like don't
even worry about the diet, let's just take the pill.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And the reality is like it's.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Okay to fall off your health and get back on
your health train. It's okay to gain some way back
and then just get back on and lose that weight again.
And what the Wealth which was saying is, she's like,
it's not the close. The more that you actually practice
getting back on, the closer you are to attaining that
constant path.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's the practice and getting back on.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We're not gonna always just be like hitting our goals
and hitting our steps or hitting everything right and checking
the boxes. Ideal, yes, absolutely, but the reality is it's
like there's gonna be days, there's gonna be weeks where
you maybe go on vacation, or you maybe fall off,
or you're maybe with someone in the hospital that week,
(08:43):
like and you just can't prioritize yourself. And that's okay,
But the mission is always get back on. And now
if the stress is gonna last more than a few
days or more than a few weeks, like, we got
to figure out a way to like at least get
you some kind of form of health within those phases.
And that's I think I think the magic is like, okay,
what can I do now?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Then Like, Okay, I'm in the hospital, I can't.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Get to the gym every day, but I can walk
laps around my hospital bed.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I remember when keno my he's gonna be eight here.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He was hospitalized with osteomilitis and I was on my
fitness journey and.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
On my health journey.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I had all my food prepped and all my food packed,
and for me, a huge trigger for overeating and just
like kind of saying, fuck it is stress, stress and
lack of sleep number one triggers for me to just
be like, fuck it, I'm going all I'm going off
my macros right. And I remember being in the hospital
with him, and I was like, and I was heading
on for so I'd been so good with my nutrition.
(09:42):
I was like, but I didn't have any food prepped
when we had like got admitted to the hospital. And
I was stressed about that, and I'm like, shoot, what
am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What am I gonna do? I remember trying to hit
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I remember like switching out with my husband to try
and go get some food for myself.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And then and I was like, and I gotta get
hit at my steps in the day.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And so I was like walking around his hospital bed
and like, just like you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know, you're on the hospital.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's boring as I'll get out right and you're just
do you just do what you can and I, you know,
at some point during that stress event, I was like, fuck,
it went off the macros.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But at least I got my steps in right.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's a little bit of give and take and the
and and I remember it took me like a week
to get back on, like I was thinking, it was
just the you know, stress of the situation. It took
me a week to get back to like counting my
macros and really being on point and on my journey,
on my health journey. And at that time that mission
was weight loss and so and getting stronger, but really
it's hard to prioritize both, right, So really it was
(10:39):
a fat loss situation for me.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And so it was a that that's just the lesson.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's like the more you do it, the stronger you get,
and hopefully you learn the lessons like I'm learning my triggers,
Like I know that I am super at risk today
to go off my macros and I just have to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Be super cognizant of it and hopefully get a nap in.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I woke up with my mind racing at two am
and just couldn't I couldn't turn it off, and so
in order for me to like really make it through
this day, I'm cognizant of Okay, I've been super sleep
deprived today, but I still got my workout, my food
is prepped, I have everything I need.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Things are in a good place.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But Alison probably needs a nap in order to recharge
that will power battery in order to make it through
the evening. And then I'm like, okay, I'm also fanning
out the evening, and I'm like, okay, I'll be best
if I'm out of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So I should take my daughter to soccer practice.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And at soccer practice, I can get mye I can
get more steps in and that will at least take
me out of the house. And then right when I
get home, I can probably go to bed. And so
these are the things. This is like the soliloquy of
how I'm trying to set myself up. I know my
triggers have happened. I couldn't control that trying to get
the best sleep. I could even took my oshabanda last night,
trying to get back on the train with the oshuganda,
(11:57):
and it just was not working for.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Me, and so got out of bed at like three thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But I know I've set myself up to be super
tired today, and so again willpower is gonna be really
really tested.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So it's that acknowledgment of.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Like knowing your triggers, knowing just learning about yourself and
your behaviors. You're never expected to be absolutely perfect, right,
and it's in the imperfection where a.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Lot of that success is gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I've talked on different episodes about like being consistent, being
disciplined and all that shit really really matters. But also
it matters that, like we are these human lives that
we are gonna live that are chaotic and have stressors,
and we are gonna fall off, and you just get
stronger and closer to achieving There's no endgame, right, so
(12:48):
there's no achievement really, but you get closer to achieving
that success the more that you put yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Back on that path, and when you surround yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
With people that are living those similar lives, that's really
beneficial because then that is that accountability to get back on.
I mean, that's what the AA wellness coaching is for me.
It's literally my own accountability to continue to be on
this pursuit of living a healthy life, and honestly, it's
the pursuit of body motion and what I stand for
(13:16):
and creating this mission and helping women live pain free,
live without joint and replacements, live without being their pants
so they can be ethically fulfilled and that can spark
creativity in them in order to help bring joy to
their lives. And then when they have creativity and joy energy,
then they find their own unique missions that they bring
(13:36):
to the world, their own services that they bring to
the world, and in that service, they're making the world
a better place.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And so it's this beautiful evolution of how it's all
connected and how all these humans are connected on Earth,
and the better we feel, the more we can create,
the better we can make the world a better place.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I digress, staying on your health.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Journey, I know I'm a little all over the place,
maybe if that's the lack of sleep, but I wanted
to share all this in just like a super authentic form.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I did, like write out.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
My outline of this podcast, and so it's it's kind
of comical because they never flow in the same.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Way that I absolutely that I write them out. But
I think it's a it's it's fun to share.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And before I like dive into something to help you
get back on the track of being on your health journey,
I want to just say that I had a really
good conversation with my husband in Phoenix a couple months ago,
and I was kind of down on myself when we
were on this vacation. I was like, it's weird that
I can't like self regulate my food intake when we're
(14:40):
on vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's kind of like I get into a scarcity mindset
around food and I'm just like, oh, yeah, I give
it to me. We're on vacation, who cares. And then
I never feel that good because I'm like, I wasn't
eating to like feel good.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I was eating to like consume and taste and YadA, YadA, YadA,
And there are simple pleasures and like good pleasures in that,
but it can.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Overdone real, real freaking fast.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And so I remember him being like, you know, even
professional athletes, even professional athletes will go on vendors for
like a couple of weeks after the season or a
couple of weeks during the season, you know. And then
because he grew up playing with some guys that are
in the NHL playing hockey and and they'll destroy their
(15:24):
bodies and then they come back and get back to trading.
And so it's it's a constant, you know, wave of
being on and being off and that's actually okay, and
the success lies within coming back. And something I read
in that in the Witchy book that I was talking
(15:46):
about earlier is for adults to feel for anyone to
achieve success, you actually have to strive for failure and
you have to put yourself in scary ass situations that
are gonna push you and and push you. And then
the more you fail, the more you're going to learn
those lessons. So it's like every time you fall off,
(16:07):
you learn those lessons. Well, I'll call is a good example.
When you overdrink and you get to like throw up status,
you learn the next day, I don't want to do
that again, So then you might take some time away
from alcohol and you know, you don't think about your
like I don't actually want to touch it now, you know, or.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You'll be more careful next time.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Like it's the same thing, right, It's the same thing
as food and going off your food or you know,
hurting yourself with food, and so we're just constantly learning.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And the idea is that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We learn and we don't go just on a vendor
the next night, or at least not for a few weeks.
Right that we're constantly coming back to the path. And
as we continually come back to the path, it just
makes us stronger and stronger and stronger.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Something I touch on a lot in our wellness.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Community is decide who you want to become. So who
is future Allison? Who is Allison one year from now?
And totally allowed to reinvent that person. So what you're
looking at now I invented three years ago. I knew
I was going to be doing these podcasts. I knew
(17:17):
I wanted to be in a different body. I knew
this is what I was going to look like. I'm
now inventing what I'm going to be next year. What
is Alison going to be in July twenty twenty six
when she photy That's what I'm inventing now.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And so.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's a fun place to get creative. And what am
I wearing? Men, Where am I vacationing? What is my
dream life? What are the daily activities of my dream life?
For me, it wouldn't matter if, like whatever, half of
my life, my dream life consists of getting my morning movement,
(17:54):
it consists of drinking my morning coffee. It consists of
writing in a nice, fancy car. And so these are
the future things. And I already know what car that is.
And so in that car even showed up at the
hockey rink the other night after I was got off
the ice, it was parked right next to me. I
took a picture of the car. I think I need
to just go buy the car. I think that's a sign.
(18:16):
But I've never bought a luxury vehicle brand new and
I so I'm still like getting used to that thought.
But that's a I'm holding myself back in those thought patterns.
And so I just need to go do it so
I can become aligned and elevated. Right, just decide you're
going to do it, and it will all fall into place.
Of course, you need to have money for it and
(18:39):
all the good stuff. But a lot of times when
we decide something, we will make it work. So yeah,
I'm real close to pull on that trigger. But where
I was saying with that is like really deciding who
you're going to become. So who is Alison at forty
in July twenty twenty six. What is she wearing? What
(18:59):
is she doing a daily basis? How is she finding
your fulfillment, her joy? What is she basking in that
feels really really good? What activities is she doing? Who
are her friends? What does she you know, where's she vacationing?
And these are the things that I'm creating and mapping
out so that every single activity I do today is
completely in line with that future person. That is completely
(19:24):
all the actions are creating and mapping out that future person.
And I think that's where the magic often comes. Is
you can't just become who you want to become without action.
But once you decide you're going to be that person
and you do all those actions that's going to get
(19:45):
you there, then you become that person.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So be do then become you know, It's really that simple.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And I hope that you take this message and if
you are living in a bit of chaos right now
and having a hard time getting your mojo back, hopefully
this is just the sign that, like everybody has hard times,
every fucking influencer you follow online that shouts that their
life is like gloriously magnificent. They have hard fucking times. Like,
(20:20):
it's not all roses. The human condition has ups and downs.
So to ignore the downs and not see the downs
in other people's lives might sometimes be like, why am
I having these downs? Why am I having these like
negative thoughts? What is my problem?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
This person only always only has positive thoughts.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's just not the reality, right, Like it's what we're
seeing online and it really contains our reality, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's not true. That's not real. Everybody's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
If you don't have freakin' lows, then you don't have highs,
And that's one boring ass life. I would not want
to live so little food for thought. Allow yourself to
learn all the lessons and the lows, and just have
complete and utter faith that you're gonna hit the highs
when you get there. Like if you're in a low
(21:13):
state or in a bad energy state, just do anything
you can to follow back to the path. So if
you haven't got a workout in a year, just start
getting a workout in.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Start with some squads, start with some movement.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And there is so much endless content on YouTube, Like
just pick something on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Do the little workout right. It's simple. I know it
sounds super.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Hard, but you don't have to be all in or
all off, like, just start making certain decisions maybe one,
maybe two, that bring you closer back to your health path,
that brings you closer to your future self, that allow
you to make those actionable changes to be that new
identity that you've created, that you've mapped out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So little food for thought.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
On this glorious sunny day in Edmunds, Washington. I wish
you the most ethic journey, and it's okay if it's
a little fucked up too.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Take care
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