December 2, 2023 • 19 mins
OUTWEIGH: Leanne is back for Part 3 of The Truth About Your Fat, where she covers:
A deeper look at the importance of understanding and accepting your body, including your fat and fascia, rather than shaming or blaming it.
A deep-dive into the interconnectedness of fat and fascia within our bodies and their roles in the nervous system, endocrine function, and sensory capabilities.
She introduces to you to 3 amazing experts who have been Leanne's teachers over the years, and have dedicated their lives to studying and educating people about the nervous system, fat, and fascia.
Leanne's goal is to empower you to take care of your body (and this includes your fat and fascia), and to help you unravel the mysteries of body fat and fascia to help you improve your overall well-being and relationship with your body.
HOST: Leanne Ellington // @leanneellington // StresslessEating.com
To learn more about re-wiring your brain to heal from the all-or-nothing diet mentality for good....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com
Resources:
Dr. Cobb's Z-Health Education: https://zhealtheducation.com/
Thomas Myers Anatomy Trains: https://www.anatomytrains.com/
Ashley Black's Fasciablaster: https://fasciablaster.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I won't let my body. I'll be out wait everything
that I'm made, won't spend my life trying to change.
I'm learning love who I am again, strong, I feel free,
I know every part of me. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And then will.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Always out way if you feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But she'll some love to THEO. Why get there?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Say God day and did you and die out way?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Happy Saturday, out wigh.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's leanne here and we are back for part three
of the Truth about Your Fat.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And if you missed parts.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
One and two, definitely go ahead and check those out
because everything we will talk about in parts three and
four will make a lot more sense and definitely give
you the context for what we are talking about here.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So we talked about a few things last week that
we're gonna build on today.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And the first thing we talked about was this idea
that you have fat, whether you like it or not.
So I just invited you to instead of spending all
of your energy shaming it or blaming it or fearing it,
why don't we just learn about it and look at
it and discover how it works. And so we talked
about how you know, first of all, you can't talk
(01:20):
about fat without talking about fascia, which is this connective
tissue that is paper thin like it's kind of like
a tissue, paper thin but crazy sticky like duct tape,
and that it encases everything in our body and is everywhere,
and I really do mean everywhere. It surrounds muscles and
joints and fat and our vital organs and besides blood
(01:43):
and oxygen. It's one of the most plentiful systems in
our bodies. But also that when it comes to talking
about fat and fascia, they aren't just these things that
you know that live independently of our body, I should say,
And they're not just affected by food and fitness.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Fat and fascia.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are essentially part of your nervous system and have endocrine
function and nerve function and sensory capabilities, and are sensitive
to temperature and touch and are actually really smart and
pliable and mouldable and something that you can influence in
ways that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Don't include fitness or food.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
In fact, in ways that would never be affected by
fitness and food.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So that was thing number one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Fat and fascia are these really miraculous tissues in our body,
and they have a purpose and there's more to them.
Than meets the eye, and you're more in control of
them than the mainstream health and fitness world is talking about.
But also on that topic of health and wellness and
taking care of yourself, just like you take care of
(02:46):
your teeth and just like you take care of your muscles,
I believe it would really benefit you if you started
taking care of your.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Fat and fascia. Okay, So that was the first thing
we talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The second thing we talked about is more in reference
to your body, body image and your relationship with your
body and your fat. And I made a pretty bold statement,
but it's something that I wish somebody had told me
a long time ago, and it's this, Okay, you cannot
self love your way to something that you don't take
care of or that you flat out ignore or disregard.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, So if.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You are totally neglecting your body or putting it last
on your priority list, that's totally cool, and there's no
judgment whatsoever. I simply invited you into a new way
of thinking about it. And I flat out I asked you, like,
what if taking care of your body and now you
know that this includes your fat and your fascia, what
if that was your path to self love and self
(03:40):
esteem and self worth, and what if that was your
path to making over your body. And I'm not just saying,
you know, take my word for it blindly without experiencing
it for yourself. Just like everything I share, I'm saying,
you know, go try this on and see what serves you.
And I'm just here simply sharing what works in my life,
what works for my clients, and I invited you to
(04:01):
simply try it on.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And see what fits for you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And then the third thing we talked about that kind
of piggybacks off.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The first thing is that fat is.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So cool and that fascia is so cool, and when
you learn about it and what it has the power
to do, like wow, You're going to be so much
more equipped to take care of yourself and your health physically, mentally, emotionally,
all of it. But not just take care of yourself,
like actually accept yourself, all of yourself, not just parts
(04:31):
of you or you know, oh, I'll accept myself when
I lose weight, like I mean right now and while
you're reaching the next level of your healing or maybe
the visions that you have for your next level self okay,
which brings us to today, which is Part three, and
what I'm going to share next week in Part four.
So let me actually give you a sneak peek. So
(04:52):
today I'm going to share different thought processes and resources
and experts who if you are interested in pursuing this
whole fashia and fat conversation, that I wanted to send
you in the right direction. And then next week I'm
going to share with you my five point check system
kind of you know, for lack of it a way of
saying it, to figure out what your fat and fascia
(05:12):
needs to be healthy. And it's essentially five different categories
within your nervous system where your fat and fascia might
need some attention, love, and care. Okay, So let's dive
in to what I wanted to share today, and this
is where I'll also say I'm not the go to
expert in this field. Okay, I am just obsessed with
this topic and it has radically changed my life. But
(05:35):
there are three people specifically that have dedicated their lives
and their careers and really their missions on this planet
to helping people understand the nervous system and the physiology
of all this fat and fascia stuff, and these people
have essentially been my teachers over the years, so I
simply wanted to share them with you and introduce you
to them so that if you want to explore this
(05:57):
more on your own, you can start doing that right away.
And of course I'll link all the resources I share
in the show notes as well. So starting with the
first person I discovered when, as I told you in
part one, I literally just started googling fascia about fifteen
years ago, and it was a man by the name
of Thomas Myers who was brought to my attention. And
(06:18):
he is famous for his Anatomy Trains book, and it's
really a theory and his book and method and theory
Anatomy Trains is the best I've seen when it comes
to explaining the science and the physiology of fascia, and
for sure when it comes to laying out the visuals
of what fascia actually looks like. Okay, in fact, that's
(06:41):
the simplest place to start. So if somebody said to me, hey, LeeAnne, like,
what's the best way to get an idea of what
fascia is, where it is on the body, and what
it looks like, I would literally tell you to google
Thomas Myers and pull up the illustrations and diagrams on
Google Images, or I definitely recommend you at his book
Anatomy Trains if you want to see it in person,
(07:03):
and literally just take a look at what fashia looks
like in the body and on the body, and the
multiple different lines that are running through your body, and
really just looking at the pictures and just by you know,
visualizing on your body what is going on in the pictures,
looking at the pictures of all the different fashion lines
(07:24):
in your body, it's enough to give you what I
call an awareness, awareness, meaning it will give you an
awareness of something that you didn't even know you could
have awareness of. And just looking at the physical pictures
of what fascia looks like in the body on the body,
your sensory system will be able to pick up on
that and you'll be able to actually feel it as in,
(07:46):
you know, in and under your skin and feel your
fascia on your body. And I know that's a bold claim,
so definitely just take my look my word for it,
or don't take my word for it, and check it
out and just look at the pictures and visual on
the body, and you'll see what I mean when I
say you can feel it. Okay, So Thomas Myer's Anatomy Trains,
he was like my teacher from Afar, and he would
(08:08):
have no idea who I am and doesn't even know
that he's affected my life, but he has. So that's
a great place to start. And if you're curious, just
check out anatomytrains dot com, which I will link in
the show notes. The second person is who I went
to to get educated after I discovered what I shared
in Part one of the Truth about Your Fat And
(08:30):
just to jog your memory, I shared that after my
spine surgery, I had all these weird, you know, neurological
symptoms and issues that no one could really help me heal.
And I was twenty five, and I was scared what
my body would be like at forty or fifty or eighty.
So I had to become my own advocate and I
went on my own big fat experiment.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But a lot of this started when I was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like whoa wait a minute, Like when I touch the
line on my body where my surgery was right, and
I followed that line all the way to my glutes,
I felt different sensations in my left side than I
did in my right side. Like that's literally how it started.
And on one side of my body, I had all
(09:13):
of this nerve stuff going on. So naturally I was
curious like, okay, ay, what's going on here? Like this
can't be normal? But b like what can I do
to learn more about this? Because there is something to
this right, because again I was following these lines and
as wherever I innervated it and touched it, I had
more sensory feedback and sensory awareness. And it's almost like
my glutes turned on. And again, you know, fifteen years
(09:35):
ago and honestly even still today, talking about the nervous
system and the nerves was not really a thing in
the fitness industry. So I asked around to my inner circle,
and I was like, hey, who is the best of
the best when it comes to the nervous system and
rehabilitation and all that good stuff, Like this is not musculoskeletal,
this is not joint, this.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Is this is neural.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I could tell I just had this feeling, right, And
a couple of people in my inner circle were like,
you need to go check out doctor Eric Cobb. Okay,
so Doctor Cobb is the creator of ze Health Performance Solutions,
And what z Health does is they are this education
system for professionals, and he has it for the like
the end user as well, but he's really helping professionals
(10:18):
so that professionals.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Can teach this to the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
But he's dedicated his life's work to helping people get
out of pain and rehabilitate their bodies, but also to
the performance side of things, because you know, the nervous
system is the dictator of both pain and performance.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But really again not.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Coming from the musculoskeletal perspective, which is what a lot
of the therapy world is coming from, and coming from
the nervous system, like what's going higher up that's causing
all of this.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So I flew out to.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Phoenix to take his essentials course, and I even caught
one of his courses when I was in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is years ago, and I'm not exaggerating when.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I say he was the gateway to my healing, Like
I don't think I would have ever discovered how to
heal the neural complications that I was having without him,
without doctor Cobb, and so I definitely recommend that you
check out zhealth if you're curious, and they have a
ton of YouTube videos and a lot of free resources,
and you can check out their blog on their website.
(11:20):
And my personal go to that I recommend to all
of my clients is doctor Cobbs. It's called a neural
warm up like n eu r al neural warm up.
It's about ten minutes long, and it's the most unique
movement series I've ever experienced, and it's a game changer.
If you want to just start somewhere small, that's a
great place to start. But all of his courses and
(11:41):
education systems are amazing and you can check all of
that out at zhealth education dot com, which we will
also link in the show notes. Okay, so that's doctor
cobb another one of my brilliant teachers. And I literally
like after I was, I mean, he really got me
out of pain his methods that I went and invested
(12:02):
a lot of time and money and took all of
his courses and really started It's what really helped me
understand the physiological side of the nervous system. But again,
one of my teachers that I'm just you know, forever
in debt too. And then last but not least. The
third person is a woman by the name of Ashley Black. Okay,
now you might have heard her from her because she
(12:22):
is all over the internet nowadays, but she is absolutely
amazing and deserves to be all over the internet Internet.
And I kind of want to be like the young
kids with their lingo and call her something like a
boss babe or or the goat or something like that,
because amazing doesn't really cover Ashley Black, but it's a star.
And she was the only other person that I knew
that was educating the mainstream about fashion. I remember this
(12:45):
was back in like two thousand and seven, two thousand
and eight. But she's also the creator of a tool
called the fascia Blaster, and I really just need to
do an episode all about fashia blasting on its own
and give it its own episode. But I pretty much
own anything that she's ever I'm out with, and she
really is a genius. But so she discovered the world
of fascia because when she was really young, she was
(13:07):
diagnosed with a really aggressive form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
which caused her to have just like these debilitating bouts
of pain throughout her childhood. Right, and so she was
in and out of doctor's offices pretty much her whole life,
and she was told that she would need a wheelchair
by the age of twenty five. Okay, but being who
she is, you know, she didn't want to take that
(13:28):
at face value, and she didn't want to settle for
that as her diagnosis, and she developed her own ways
to cope with the pain, using stretching and hot baths
and other therapeutic modalities. Okay, But then in her mid twenties,
after she gave birth to her second child, she went
into the hospital for a routine procedure and she contracted
(13:49):
a deadly bone infection that most people with this condition
actually die from. But after months of excruciating pain and
pretty much a miracle, she was released from the hospital
and they gave her a prognosis where basically, you know,
they told her that you're going to live in a
life of disability and live on pain management drugs.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Like that's what they told her.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
They're like, you're lucky to be alive, but like you're
going to be disabled and you're going to be on
drugs to manage the pain. So she refused to accept that,
and she's like no, this is not my future. And
so she again became her own advocate and became her own,
you know, the dictator of her own healing journey, I
should say. And so she created not just an amazing
(14:31):
set of tools to help the mainstream impact their own
fascia because you know, spoiler alert, she realized that fascia
was a big piece of this pain puzzle, but she
also created frameworks and teaching principles and created an amazing
community and really developed an entire education system. And she's
also somebody that just really empowers other women and goes
(14:53):
above and beyond to serve her people. And I haven't
met Ashley in person yet, and I say yet because
I feel like our puzzle cross one day, but we've
exchanged messages on Facebook a couple of times, and she's
seriously just such an amazing light. So check her out
as well by going to Ashley Blackguru dot com and
we will post that in the show notes as well.
One other quick thing I want to say about the
(15:13):
fashion blaster side of things too, since obviously we're all
about healing here on that way and obviously connecting to
your body.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So Ashley invented her.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Tools as a healing modality, just like I shared with you, right,
But just like I also shared last week, we learned
that cellulite is essentially fascially bound fat that isn't broken up, right,
So you can probably imagine that a lot of people
use the fashion blaster as strictly a cellulite tool, So
(15:42):
just be mindful of that when you're googling and researching.
Not that fashion blasting through cellulite is a bad thing
or anything like that. It's a fun silver lining, right.
But I also just like wanted to invite you to
get clear on the intent behind the content of anything,
but in this case, fashia blasting, if you go down
that road, because the last thing I want to do
(16:04):
is cause you to you know, a new obsession like
obsessing over cellulite or anything like that that might contribute
to body dysmorphia when our goal is healing and health
and connecting to our bodies. Okay, And so I have
a feeling you all get what I mean. I mean,
if you're listening to this podcast, you're on that journey.
But I just wanted to make sure to mention that
as well. And again this is just me coming to
(16:25):
you from a place of you know, this is my
journey with with kind of taking ownership of my own
debilitating pain and nerve issues after major spine surgery, which
I talked about in the in the Cost of Skinny
episode where you know, spine surgery was just one of
the costs of obsessing over my weight. But all of
that is what led me to learning about my own
(16:46):
fat and fascia. And I'm just super passionate and purposeful
about it because it has changed my life time and
time again, and it still is, like, just like everything,
I'm still on my own journey, and these three people
have literally dedicated their life's work to these topics that
the mainstream health and fitness world is still pretty much ignoring.
And again I'm still shocked because you know, ten fifteen
(17:09):
years ago, when I first started discovering some of this stuff,
I was like, why isn't the world talking about this?
And here we are over a decade later, and it's
still not really mainstream. And that's why I'm sharing these
insights on this podcast, and that's why I'm definitely inviting
you to check out these three amazing humans and see
what they're up to, but really to go on your
(17:29):
own big fat experiment because there's so much to grasp
and it's such an individualized process. But this will give
you some tools and again cover it three dimensionally, so
from the fat and fascia side to the movement side
of things, to the neural mapping side of things, all
of it. So that is it for today, outweigh, and
I can't wait to bring you part four of this
(17:50):
Big Fat Conversation next week where we're going to talk
about the five types of fat and fascia that you
might have. And again it's like I wish I knew this,
then it can just become data of like, oh that
makes so much sense as opposed to it used to
be something I used to shame and blame and have
like a really you know, negative relationship with So if
(18:10):
you liked what you heard today and maybe you want
to hear more about the process of rewiring your own
brain when it comes to healing your relationship with food
healing your relationship with your body, then go ahead and
head on over to Stressless Eating dot com and sign
up to watch the Stressless Eating webinar where I walk
you through the exact five step game plan that my
(18:31):
clients use to heal themselves from the all or nothing
diet mentality for good butt. And here's the big butt,
right without restricting themselves, punishing their bodies, and definitely definitely
without ever having to use words like macros, low.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Carb, or calorie burn.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And so I've laid it all out for you in
five easy steps over at Stressless Eating dot com, and
we'll be back next week for more outweigh where we're
going to get into part four, the final part of
the Truth about Your Fat. So I'm Leahne Ellington and
I will
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Talk to you then
I won't let my body. I'll be out wait everything
that I'm made, won't spend my life trying to change.
I'm learning love who I am again, strong, I feel free,
I know every part of me. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And then will.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Always out way if you feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But she'll some love to THEO. Why get there?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Say God day and did you and die out way?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Happy Saturday, out wigh.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's leanne here and we are back for part three
of the Truth about Your Fat.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And if you missed parts.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
One and two, definitely go ahead and check those out
because everything we will talk about in parts three and
four will make a lot more sense and definitely give
you the context for what we are talking about here.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So we talked about a few things last week that
we're gonna build on today.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And the first thing we talked about was this idea
that you have fat, whether you like it or not.
So I just invited you to instead of spending all
of your energy shaming it or blaming it or fearing it,
why don't we just learn about it and look at
it and discover how it works. And so we talked
about how you know, first of all, you can't talk
(01:20):
about fat without talking about fascia, which is this connective
tissue that is paper thin like it's kind of like
a tissue, paper thin but crazy sticky like duct tape,
and that it encases everything in our body and is everywhere,
and I really do mean everywhere. It surrounds muscles and
joints and fat and our vital organs and besides blood
(01:43):
and oxygen. It's one of the most plentiful systems in
our bodies. But also that when it comes to talking
about fat and fascia, they aren't just these things that
you know that live independently of our body, I should say,
And they're not just affected by food and fitness.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Fat and fascia.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are essentially part of your nervous system and have endocrine
function and nerve function and sensory capabilities, and are sensitive
to temperature and touch and are actually really smart and
pliable and mouldable and something that you can influence in
ways that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Don't include fitness or food.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
In fact, in ways that would never be affected by
fitness and food.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So that was thing number one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Fat and fascia are these really miraculous tissues in our body,
and they have a purpose and there's more to them.
Than meets the eye, and you're more in control of
them than the mainstream health and fitness world is talking about.
But also on that topic of health and wellness and
taking care of yourself, just like you take care of
(02:46):
your teeth and just like you take care of your muscles,
I believe it would really benefit you if you started
taking care of your.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Fat and fascia. Okay, So that was the first thing
we talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The second thing we talked about is more in reference
to your body, body image and your relationship with your
body and your fat. And I made a pretty bold statement,
but it's something that I wish somebody had told me
a long time ago, and it's this, Okay, you cannot
self love your way to something that you don't take
care of or that you flat out ignore or disregard.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, So if.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You are totally neglecting your body or putting it last
on your priority list, that's totally cool, and there's no
judgment whatsoever. I simply invited you into a new way
of thinking about it. And I flat out I asked you, like,
what if taking care of your body and now you
know that this includes your fat and your fascia, what
if that was your path to self love and self
(03:40):
esteem and self worth, and what if that was your
path to making over your body. And I'm not just saying,
you know, take my word for it blindly without experiencing
it for yourself. Just like everything I share, I'm saying,
you know, go try this on and see what serves you.
And I'm just here simply sharing what works in my life,
what works for my clients, and I invited you to
(04:01):
simply try it on.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And see what fits for you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And then the third thing we talked about that kind
of piggybacks off.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The first thing is that fat is.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So cool and that fascia is so cool, and when
you learn about it and what it has the power
to do, like wow, You're going to be so much
more equipped to take care of yourself and your health physically, mentally, emotionally,
all of it. But not just take care of yourself,
like actually accept yourself, all of yourself, not just parts
(04:31):
of you or you know, oh, I'll accept myself when
I lose weight, like I mean right now and while
you're reaching the next level of your healing or maybe
the visions that you have for your next level self okay,
which brings us to today, which is Part three, and
what I'm going to share next week in Part four.
So let me actually give you a sneak peek. So
(04:52):
today I'm going to share different thought processes and resources
and experts who if you are interested in pursuing this
whole fashia and fat conversation, that I wanted to send
you in the right direction. And then next week I'm
going to share with you my five point check system
kind of you know, for lack of it a way of
saying it, to figure out what your fat and fascia
(05:12):
needs to be healthy. And it's essentially five different categories
within your nervous system where your fat and fascia might
need some attention, love, and care. Okay, So let's dive
in to what I wanted to share today, and this
is where I'll also say I'm not the go to
expert in this field. Okay, I am just obsessed with
this topic and it has radically changed my life. But
(05:35):
there are three people specifically that have dedicated their lives
and their careers and really their missions on this planet
to helping people understand the nervous system and the physiology
of all this fat and fascia stuff, and these people
have essentially been my teachers over the years, so I
simply wanted to share them with you and introduce you
to them so that if you want to explore this
(05:57):
more on your own, you can start doing that right away.
And of course I'll link all the resources I share
in the show notes as well. So starting with the
first person I discovered when, as I told you in
part one, I literally just started googling fascia about fifteen
years ago, and it was a man by the name
of Thomas Myers who was brought to my attention. And
(06:18):
he is famous for his Anatomy Trains book, and it's
really a theory and his book and method and theory
Anatomy Trains is the best I've seen when it comes
to explaining the science and the physiology of fascia, and
for sure when it comes to laying out the visuals
of what fascia actually looks like. Okay, in fact, that's
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the simplest place to start. So if somebody said to me, hey, LeeAnne, like,
what's the best way to get an idea of what
fascia is, where it is on the body, and what
it looks like, I would literally tell you to google
Thomas Myers and pull up the illustrations and diagrams on
Google Images, or I definitely recommend you at his book
Anatomy Trains if you want to see it in person,
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and literally just take a look at what fashia looks
like in the body and on the body, and the
multiple different lines that are running through your body, and
really just looking at the pictures and just by you know,
visualizing on your body what is going on in the pictures,
looking at the pictures of all the different fashion lines
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in your body, it's enough to give you what I
call an awareness, awareness, meaning it will give you an
awareness of something that you didn't even know you could
have awareness of. And just looking at the physical pictures
of what fascia looks like in the body on the body,
your sensory system will be able to pick up on
that and you'll be able to actually feel it as in,
(07:46):
you know, in and under your skin and feel your
fascia on your body. And I know that's a bold claim,
so definitely just take my look my word for it,
or don't take my word for it, and check it
out and just look at the pictures and visual on
the body, and you'll see what I mean when I
say you can feel it. Okay, So Thomas Myer's Anatomy Trains,
he was like my teacher from Afar, and he would
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have no idea who I am and doesn't even know
that he's affected my life, but he has. So that's
a great place to start. And if you're curious, just
check out anatomytrains dot com, which I will link in
the show notes. The second person is who I went
to to get educated after I discovered what I shared
in Part one of the Truth about Your Fat And
(08:30):
just to jog your memory, I shared that after my
spine surgery, I had all these weird, you know, neurological
symptoms and issues that no one could really help me heal.
And I was twenty five, and I was scared what
my body would be like at forty or fifty or eighty.
So I had to become my own advocate and I
went on my own big fat experiment.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But a lot of this started when I was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like whoa wait a minute, Like when I touch the
line on my body where my surgery was right, and
I followed that line all the way to my glutes,
I felt different sensations in my left side than I
did in my right side. Like that's literally how it started.
And on one side of my body, I had all
(09:13):
of this nerve stuff going on. So naturally I was
curious like, okay, ay, what's going on here? Like this
can't be normal? But b like what can I do
to learn more about this? Because there is something to
this right, because again I was following these lines and
as wherever I innervated it and touched it, I had
more sensory feedback and sensory awareness. And it's almost like
my glutes turned on. And again, you know, fifteen years
(09:35):
ago and honestly even still today, talking about the nervous
system and the nerves was not really a thing in
the fitness industry. So I asked around to my inner circle,
and I was like, hey, who is the best of
the best when it comes to the nervous system and
rehabilitation and all that good stuff, Like this is not musculoskeletal,
this is not joint, this.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Is this is neural.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I could tell I just had this feeling, right, And
a couple of people in my inner circle were like,
you need to go check out doctor Eric Cobb. Okay,
so Doctor Cobb is the creator of ze Health Performance Solutions,
And what z Health does is they are this education
system for professionals, and he has it for the like
the end user as well, but he's really helping professionals
(10:18):
so that professionals.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Can teach this to the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
But he's dedicated his life's work to helping people get
out of pain and rehabilitate their bodies, but also to
the performance side of things, because you know, the nervous
system is the dictator of both pain and performance.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But really again not.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Coming from the musculoskeletal perspective, which is what a lot
of the therapy world is coming from, and coming from
the nervous system, like what's going higher up that's causing
all of this.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So I flew out to.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Phoenix to take his essentials course, and I even caught
one of his courses when I was in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
This is years ago, and I'm not exaggerating when.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I say he was the gateway to my healing, Like
I don't think I would have ever discovered how to
heal the neural complications that I was having without him,
without doctor Cobb, and so I definitely recommend that you
check out zhealth if you're curious, and they have a
ton of YouTube videos and a lot of free resources,
and you can check out their blog on their website.
(11:20):
And my personal go to that I recommend to all
of my clients is doctor Cobbs. It's called a neural
warm up like n eu r al neural warm up.
It's about ten minutes long, and it's the most unique
movement series I've ever experienced, and it's a game changer.
If you want to just start somewhere small, that's a
great place to start. But all of his courses and
(11:41):
education systems are amazing and you can check all of
that out at zhealth education dot com, which we will
also link in the show notes. Okay, so that's doctor
cobb another one of my brilliant teachers. And I literally
like after I was, I mean, he really got me
out of pain his methods that I went and invested
(12:02):
a lot of time and money and took all of
his courses and really started It's what really helped me
understand the physiological side of the nervous system. But again,
one of my teachers that I'm just you know, forever
in debt too. And then last but not least. The
third person is a woman by the name of Ashley Black. Okay,
now you might have heard her from her because she
(12:22):
is all over the internet nowadays, but she is absolutely
amazing and deserves to be all over the internet Internet.
And I kind of want to be like the young
kids with their lingo and call her something like a
boss babe or or the goat or something like that,
because amazing doesn't really cover Ashley Black, but it's a star.
And she was the only other person that I knew
that was educating the mainstream about fashion. I remember this
(12:45):
was back in like two thousand and seven, two thousand
and eight. But she's also the creator of a tool
called the fascia Blaster, and I really just need to
do an episode all about fashia blasting on its own
and give it its own episode. But I pretty much
own anything that she's ever I'm out with, and she
really is a genius. But so she discovered the world
of fascia because when she was really young, she was
(13:07):
diagnosed with a really aggressive form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
which caused her to have just like these debilitating bouts
of pain throughout her childhood. Right, and so she was
in and out of doctor's offices pretty much her whole life,
and she was told that she would need a wheelchair
by the age of twenty five. Okay, but being who
she is, you know, she didn't want to take that
(13:28):
at face value, and she didn't want to settle for
that as her diagnosis, and she developed her own ways
to cope with the pain, using stretching and hot baths
and other therapeutic modalities. Okay, But then in her mid twenties,
after she gave birth to her second child, she went
into the hospital for a routine procedure and she contracted
(13:49):
a deadly bone infection that most people with this condition
actually die from. But after months of excruciating pain and
pretty much a miracle, she was released from the hospital
and they gave her a prognosis where basically, you know,
they told her that you're going to live in a
life of disability and live on pain management drugs.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Like that's what they told her.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
They're like, you're lucky to be alive, but like you're
going to be disabled and you're going to be on
drugs to manage the pain. So she refused to accept that,
and she's like no, this is not my future. And
so she again became her own advocate and became her own,
you know, the dictator of her own healing journey, I
should say. And so she created not just an amazing
(14:31):
set of tools to help the mainstream impact their own
fascia because you know, spoiler alert, she realized that fascia
was a big piece of this pain puzzle, but she
also created frameworks and teaching principles and created an amazing
community and really developed an entire education system. And she's
also somebody that just really empowers other women and goes
(14:53):
above and beyond to serve her people. And I haven't
met Ashley in person yet, and I say yet because
I feel like our puzzle cross one day, but we've
exchanged messages on Facebook a couple of times, and she's
seriously just such an amazing light. So check her out
as well by going to Ashley Blackguru dot com and
we will post that in the show notes as well.
One other quick thing I want to say about the
(15:13):
fashion blaster side of things too, since obviously we're all
about healing here on that way and obviously connecting to
your body.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So Ashley invented her.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Tools as a healing modality, just like I shared with you, right,
But just like I also shared last week, we learned
that cellulite is essentially fascially bound fat that isn't broken up, right,
So you can probably imagine that a lot of people
use the fashion blaster as strictly a cellulite tool, So
(15:42):
just be mindful of that when you're googling and researching.
Not that fashion blasting through cellulite is a bad thing
or anything like that. It's a fun silver lining, right.
But I also just like wanted to invite you to
get clear on the intent behind the content of anything,
but in this case, fashia blasting, if you go down
that road, because the last thing I want to do
(16:04):
is cause you to you know, a new obsession like
obsessing over cellulite or anything like that that might contribute
to body dysmorphia when our goal is healing and health
and connecting to our bodies. Okay, And so I have
a feeling you all get what I mean. I mean,
if you're listening to this podcast, you're on that journey.
But I just wanted to make sure to mention that
as well. And again this is just me coming to
(16:25):
you from a place of you know, this is my
journey with with kind of taking ownership of my own
debilitating pain and nerve issues after major spine surgery, which
I talked about in the in the Cost of Skinny
episode where you know, spine surgery was just one of
the costs of obsessing over my weight. But all of
that is what led me to learning about my own
(16:46):
fat and fascia. And I'm just super passionate and purposeful
about it because it has changed my life time and
time again, and it still is, like, just like everything,
I'm still on my own journey, and these three people
have literally dedicated their life's work to these topics that
the mainstream health and fitness world is still pretty much ignoring.
And again I'm still shocked because you know, ten fifteen
(17:09):
years ago, when I first started discovering some of this stuff,
I was like, why isn't the world talking about this?
And here we are over a decade later, and it's
still not really mainstream. And that's why I'm sharing these
insights on this podcast, and that's why I'm definitely inviting
you to check out these three amazing humans and see
what they're up to, but really to go on your
(17:29):
own big fat experiment because there's so much to grasp
and it's such an individualized process. But this will give
you some tools and again cover it three dimensionally, so
from the fat and fascia side to the movement side
of things, to the neural mapping side of things, all
of it. So that is it for today, outweigh, and
I can't wait to bring you part four of this
(17:50):
Big Fat Conversation next week where we're going to talk
about the five types of fat and fascia that you
might have. And again it's like I wish I knew this,
then it can just become data of like, oh that
makes so much sense as opposed to it used to
be something I used to shame and blame and have
like a really you know, negative relationship with So if
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you liked what you heard today and maybe you want
to hear more about the process of rewiring your own
brain when it comes to healing your relationship with food
healing your relationship with your body, then go ahead and
head on over to Stressless Eating dot com and sign
up to watch the Stressless Eating webinar where I walk
you through the exact five step game plan that my
(18:31):
clients use to heal themselves from the all or nothing
diet mentality for good butt. And here's the big butt,
right without restricting themselves, punishing their bodies, and definitely definitely
without ever having to use words like macros, low.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Carb, or calorie burn.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And so I've laid it all out for you in
five easy steps over at Stressless Eating dot com, and
we'll be back next week for more outweigh where we're
going to get into part four, the final part of
the Truth about Your Fat. So I'm Leahne Ellington and
I will
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Talk to you then
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