How To Be Kind To Yourself & Your Body w/ Shanique Allen
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After falling captive to the scale and macro-nutrient counting, Shanique Allen said enough is enough and decided to change her lifestyle for one that was healthy, but not restrictive. Through this change in mindset and nutrition, Shanique has stopped letting food control her and now works with her clients to promote being kind to your body while still fueling yourself with healthy decisions.
Live Life Unrestricted
Shanique is determined to help you live your life with more ease and enjoyment. She believes that movement should be one of the things that bring you satisfaction and joy and that counting calories or setting limits for yourself is the opposite of achieving total body health and acceptance.
Learn from Shanique's story as she reveals what she wishes she knew in hindsight, how being less restrictive can actually lead to greater holistic health benefits, and why we should stop judging those that go against societies version of 'healthy'.
There are more aspects to your wellness than just eating clean and exercising, and Shanique is living proof of the importance of making these healthy tools accessible to everyone. By creating a community where people are empowered to take the steps for themselves, you can invest in yourself and foster acceptance from within.
Are you ready to change the conversation regarding fitness and find more enjoyment in your daily routine? Share what you loved most about Shanique's story and vision in the comments on the episode page.
On Today's Episode
- How to change your relationship and mindset with the numbers on the scale
- Changing the way you move to give you more joy and better results
- Mindset techniques you can use to break up with everything you know about fitness
- Ways life in Jamacia impacted Shanique's approach to food and body image
- The importance of acceptance and giving yourself grace when making health improvements
Quotes
"Having decided to break up with the person that I was, I had to create an identity that I could not 'live with', but who I was, I needed to figure that out, right now… and that's what lead me to where I am today. I am not defined by food, it is no longer something that I worry about, its something that compliments my life." (19:44)
"Now when I jump on the scale, and I am no longer tracking, I don't care. And because I decided that food was no longer a determining factor in how I chose to enjoy life." (24:32)
"In hindsight, I don't know what the hell I was doing! I'm like 'damn Shanique you could have saved yourself a lot'. But at the same time, I am kind of glad I went through all that because it brought me here." (34:38)
"Given that we are all unique, how can you use what you have to do what you can to get to where you want to go?" (41:07)
Resources Mentioned In This Show
Apply for #FabFitFormula Coaching
Follow Shanique on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
The Nutritional Therapy Association Website
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| 0:00.0 | This is Harder to Kill Radio, a weekly podcast where we explore what it takes to build |
| 0:06.0 | unbreakable humans through fitness, nutrition, and mindset. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Steph Godro. My mission in life is to help women build stronger bodies and resilient |
| 0:18.8 | minds so that they begin to embrace and really own their inner power. |
| 0:24.6 | The vision I have is that one day, |
| 0:26.9 | girls will grow up into strong women who appreciate their bodies, |
| 0:31.1 | know their worth, take up space, and live bigger, without the pressure of impossible to fulfill |
| 0:38.1 | bullshit societal standards. |
| 0:40.7 | That is what it means to be harder to kill. |
| 0:43.0 | This podcast is one way to explore these issues, |
| 0:47.0 | and you may not always agree with the viewpoints presented here, |
| 0:50.0 | but I can guarantee one thing. It will make you think. I'm here to lead a community of women and then we need you two who are ready to define what it is they truly want from their lives on their terms. |
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| 1:17.0 | And also be sure to tune in to my weekly companion show, Fear's Love Friday, every Friday. On that note, let's do this. Hi there. Welcome to episode 217 of Harder to Kill radio. I'm your host |
| 1:48.1 | Steph Godro. I'm so pleased and really grateful that you're joining me for today's episode. |
| 1:55.0 | This is Tuesday, so it's another expert guest interview with a fascinating person |
| 2:00.6 | who is doing so much to change the conversation regarding fitness and she's just |
| 2:07.4 | such a lovely lovely person that I've had the great pleasure of spending time |
| 2:11.6 | with and I know you're going to enjoy this episode. |
| 2:14.0 | Today's episode is with my friend Shanique Allen. |
| 2:18.0 | Shanique has a really interesting story, a really interesting perspective, and her mission in life is something that's |
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