s1/e25 Running & Mental Health with Lauren Sheu (@running.for.wellness)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mental health = physical health! In this episode I sat down with Coach Lauren Sheu (@running.for.welllness), runner and mental health advocate, to talk about how running and mental health are intertwined!
🧠WHY is running good for our mental health?
🧠How the lessons we learn from running translate to our life
🧠Breaking up with the "all or nothing" mentality
🧠Learning to deal with uncomfortable emotions and finding the root cause of your emotional discomfort
🧠Why running isn't a replacement for therapy (& how to find a therapist!)
🧠Dealing with self-doubt, and how it's OK to not be OK even if someone "has it worse" than you
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Lauren Sheu is an RRCA Certified Running Coach, Mental Health Advocate, Speaker, Blogger, wife, and working mom. Lauren is the Owner and Founder of Running for Wellness, which was created with the purpose of helping people to improve their mental health and wellbeing through running. Lauren coaches new runners, blogs about running and mental health, and volunteers at NAMI Keystone PA as a Mental Health Speaker and Family Support Group Facilitator. You can find her on Instagram as @running.for.wellness
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.1 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.5 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a |
| 0:20.3 | better, smarter, |
| 0:21.4 | faster, runner. |
| 0:23.5 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:27.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:30.3 | My guest this week is Lauren Shue. |
| 0:32.7 | Lauren is an RRCA certified running coach and a mental health advocate. |
| 0:36.8 | She's the owner and founder of Running for Wellness, which was created with the explicit |
| 0:40.3 | purpose of helping people improve their mental health and well-being through running. |
| 0:45.2 | And as somebody whose life, mental health and well-being was completely transformed by running, |
| 0:49.7 | I am so inspired by Lauren's mission to bring that to everyone else. |
| 0:55.4 | This conversation is about mental health and mental wellness and mental well-being. We talk about some of the more mental |
| 1:00.5 | health aspects of running, how running can translate into the rest of your life. And at the end, |
| 1:06.9 | we also talk about when it's appropriate to see professional like a therapist and how to make |
| 1:11.6 | sure that therapist is a good fit for you. Lauren, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here. |
| 1:18.3 | Hi, Elizabeth. Thanks for having me. I'm excited too. So first up, tell us about yourself. Tell us your |
| 1:24.2 | origin story who you became a runner and a coach and an advocate. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:29.9 | So I'll start by saying that I haven't always been a runner. |
| 1:34.0 | Actually, in my early 20s, I despised running. |
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