Rediscovering Fitness: Shame, Grief & Learning to Love Your Body with Dr. Diana Hill
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy Pelz
Dr. Mindy Pelz
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Exercise isn't just another thing on your to-do list – it's a chance to enjoy moving and connect with your amazing body. Join Dr. Diana Hill for a warm and insightful conversation about self-compassion, breaking free from strict workout plans, and rediscovering the joy of movement. She'll explore how our thoughts about exercise can clash with what our bodies are telling us, especially during big life changes like perimenopause. We'll also touch on the real-life and emotional hurdles we face and how motivation, shame, our sense of self, and even grief can play a role. This episode is for anyone who longs for a kinder, more personalized approach to movement, that focuses on finding activities you love and weaving them into your day-to-day, rather than forcing yourself into rigid routines.
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Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, international trainer, and a leading expert on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and compassion. She is the host of the Wise Effort podcast and author of four books including The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, ACT Daily Journal, her latest I Know I Should Exercise, But..., and Wise Effort (forthcoming Fall 2025). Integrating over 20 years of meditation and yoga experience with psychological research, Dr. Hill leads retreats, therapist trainings, and workshops to help organizations and individuals develop psychological flexibility so that they can grow fulfilling and impactful lives. She is on the Institute for Better Health board and writes for Psychology Today and Mindful.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I am bringing you Dr. Diana Hill. |
| 0:09.6 | So Dr. Diana is the author of a new book called I Know I Should Exercise, But. |
| 0:18.0 | And then there's like dot, dot, dot, 44 reasons we don't move and how to get over them. |
| 0:25.1 | Phenomenal title, right? And why I wanted to bring her to you all is, A, she has co-authored this |
| 0:30.6 | book with Katie Bowman. And so many of you loved the interview I did with Katie. We'll leave a link here |
| 0:36.4 | to that. But what these two women are |
| 0:38.6 | out to do, which is really beautiful, is help us go get back into a positive relationship with |
| 0:45.8 | movement. And what's so beautiful is that Katie is a movement expert, and Diana is a clinical |
| 0:53.0 | psychologist. So a little bit of a background on |
| 0:56.4 | Diana, and then I want to tell you what you're about to hear. She is an international trainer |
| 1:01.1 | and a leading expert on acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion. She hosts a podcast |
| 1:08.7 | called The Wise Effort Podcast, and she's authored four books, |
| 1:13.2 | including the Self-compassion Daily Journal. So that gives you a little bit of an idea of the |
| 1:19.4 | lens in which you're going to hear this conversation. And really what we go through is |
| 1:24.8 | how do you love exercising and what does that look like? Then we dive into |
| 1:30.8 | what do you do when you're out moving your body and you're like, I hate this, I hate this, |
| 1:35.0 | and every cell inside of you wants to stop. We had talked about that. We then go into the psychological |
| 1:42.7 | hurdles. |
| 1:47.4 | And of course, they have 44 hurdles in their book. |
| 1:54.2 | But we went through some really important ones like what happens when we're grieving our younger bodies and what happens if we have a lot of shame about our body? |
| 1:58.7 | And how about our identity? |
| 2:00.7 | A lot of us were athletes when we were |
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