Lula Brown

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Intuitive Eating & Following Your Flow
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Intuitive Eating & Life After Recovery
with Susan E. Casey, MSW, MFA

Healing Binge Eating
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Intuitive Eating & Sensuality
with Ellie Aaron 

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I was feeling stagnant for a couple weeks last mon I was feeling stagnant for a couple weeks last month, and I couldn’t figure out why. I’m in a new country… Meeting new people… Having adventures… Working with new clients… I felt like I should be feeling great, but something was missing. One day I decided to go out for a run – something I don’t do that often – and I realized what was missing: Vigor. Vigor is what was missing. Feeling the edges of my physical limits. Right now I’m very focused on regulating my nervous system and recovering from hustle culture: Spending full days doing almost nothing, often in nature, is absolutely a priority right now, because it really works – it really makes a difference. Amidst recovering, resting, and leaning back, it’s easy to forget the importance of vigor. As much as I love my walks, yoga, and Pilates, I needed more vigor sprinkled in. Vigor can look different for everyone, but we all need it. Humans have a huge physical capacity, and we need to feel that capacity. Have you ever seen those videos of people miraculously finding the strength to lift a car off a trapped child or animal? That’s an extreme example, but it beautifully illustrates how vast our limits are. We need to push ourselves, at least from time to time. To feel our limits. Heavy breathing. Pounding chest. Muscles engaged. Spirit stretched. If you’re feeling stagnant… … vigor may be your medicine. At the same time, too much vigor can lead to stagnation. It’s a delicate dance between the two. When I was in high school, I ran track and cross country all year round. When I was 16, my trainer told me that if I kept up the same mileage, I would need a hip replacement by the time I was 30. That was too much vigor. When I was 17, I started practicing Bikram yoga, an intense practice done at 105 degrees. I loved the classes, but afterwards, I was completely drained. That was too much vigor. Today, my body feels better than ever. I never get shin splints, and rarely feel unhealthily sore. I feel strong, mobile, and light. My hormones are balanced. I healed my PCOS naturally. Today, I have the right amount of vigor in my life. What’s your relationship with vigor?
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When you’re supporting your health, there’s no When you’re supporting your health, there’s no need for “biohacking.” There’s no need to speed things up. To take shortcuts. To cut out food groups. To eat massive amounts of any one food group. To shock your nervous system with cold plunges (the high you feel is your body realizing you survived it – not good when repeated over and over). Fight-or-flight should be reserved for actual emergencies. Excess stress hormones = higher risk of illness, excess upper body fat around vital organs, anxiety, sleep issues, and more. When you’re supporting your health, you’re steady, consistent, and naturally bursting with vitality – there’s no need to “biohack.” How do you feel about the term “biohacking”?
I was on the phone with a friend a couple months a I was on the phone with a friend a couple months ago and he was lamenting the fact that he lost a big work contract, leaving a “hole” in his income and schedule. My immediate thought was – oh, an opening for something new, maybe more fun, perhaps higher paying. A hole is the same as an opening. An opening for a whole new opportunity. I’ve always been a pretty positive person, but in my early 20s I began to really train myself to have a pragmatic positivity bias. To genuinely and automatically see the positive side of situations, without having to… >> Talk myself into it. >> Practice toxic positivity. >> Lie to myself. >> Fake it or feel cheesy. The truth is that “losing” something, like a project or job, objectively creates space for something else… … but it’s hard to see that if you’re wallowing in the loss of what was never meant to be. You wind up using your energy to feel bad rather than channeling it toward new possibilities. Without a pragmatic positivity basis, in moments of “loss” you build up tension and resentment that could repel new opportunities. We’ve all heard… “What can go wrong, will.” “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” “Just wait for the other shoe to drop.” … dozens of times, from a young, highly impressionable age. So there’s no shame if you’ve realized that you tend to see the negative in situations – most of us learned to, as a protection mechanism. The good news? Science shows we can rewire our thought patterns and develop new neural pathways at any age. Do you notice that your brain naturally goes toward the negative, or have you already developed a pragmatic positivity bias? I’d love to hear your experience in the comments. XO, Lula

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