Four Ways to Embrace Your Body and Own Your Power

Welcome to the one-hundredth and fourth episode! We are talking all about how to push past fear to pursue the health and body you long for.

My name is Brianna Wilkerson from Made Well, holistic coaching practice designed to empower others to be healthy and thrive in all areas of their lives.

I am a Holistic Health and Life Coach, Essential Oils Advocate, and a Crossfit-Level 1 Trainer with a heart to empower working women to overcome yo-yo dieting, honor their bodies and get a healthy body they love and are proud of. I love seeing women care for their bodies through proper nutrition, consistent exercise, managing stress, sleeping well, digesting foods well, reducing their toxic load, caring for their mindset and habits. I also love empowering working women to use non-toxic solutions like essential oils for their health and those they love!

It is my absolute delight and pleasure to bring you this podcast and share with you all my heart and soul around truly being healthy and thriving in all areas of your life!

Today’s episode is with Steph Gaudreau on four ways to embrace your body and own your power.

Steph Gaudreau, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, speaker, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out.

Since 2011, Steph has impacted the lives of thousands of women through her fierce-love approach to strength and badassery, what she calls The Core 4. The success of her program can be found in the astounding health results from those women who have tried it—including muscle definition, body confidence, restful sleep, and a strong powerful outlook that permeates every facet of life.

In THE CORE 4 book, Steph finally offers women a strong body and mind achieved through minimal time on the treadmill, simple workouts, targeted nutrition (that is also delicious!), and mindset practices with clear results. When you focus on The Core 4–Eat Nourishing Foods, Move with Intention, Recharge Your Energy, and Empower Your Mind–you give yourself the gifts of care, strength, and resiliency, and take a powerful step toward the life you want.

In this episode, you will learn about:

  • Steph’s personal journey in embracing and loving her own body
  • What led Steph to leave her full-time job for 12 years as a teacher to starting her own online blog, podcast, and business to help other women transform their nutrition and fitness without shame tactics or crash diets.
  • The why behind Steph shifting from an athlete and paleo-recipe based blog to coaching women in their nutrition, fitness, and mindset
  • How Steph using her Core4 pillars of health to help women get stronger and embrace their bodies
  • All the details on Steph’s amazing new book, the Core 4 which includes education, client testimonials, personal stories, and a 30-day program filled with recipes, workouts, inspiration, encouragement and more

Be sure to check out the episode below and the resources/links!

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Quotes:

“I spent a lot of time and energy obsessing over the way that my body should be.”

“For the first time in a very long time, I realized I wasn’t micromanaging how my body looked.”

“Health and well-being are multi-faceted. It’s not just about what you eat or exercise, it’s way more than that.”

“Weight loss may be apart of the equation of you feeling better and being healthier, but it’s not always guaranteed.”

“We can’t definitively know about someone’s health by their weight.”

“How can we use a framework (not a strict set of rules) to understanding how to nourish our bodies with food, move our bodies with intention, recharge our energy and get our mindset right to embrace our body and own our power?”

“What does it look like to respect and care for your body because it’s the home you live in?”

“Building a world where little girls can grow up to be women who know their worth, take up space, know-how amazing and strong they are without the pressure of extreme dieting and the scale determining our worthiness.”

“Do you know that I love your body? But the question is, do you love it?”

Resources Mentioned:

Steph’s Resources

Brianna’s Resources

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By Brianna Wilkerson

Brianna Wilkerson is a Holistic Health and Life Coach, Essential Oils Advocate with doTERRA, podcast host, wife and momma, matcha tea lover, and at-home crossfitter. She helps women find peace with food, create healthy habits, and use natural essential oil-based products so they can feel better, have more energy, and take care of themselves and those they love. You’ll leave sessions with her feeling supported and empowered to make simple health changes that fit into your life, and use essential oils as natural solutions for your health, home, and family. You can find Brianna hanging out in the Made Well Women's Health Community and on her Instagram!