Speaker 1: I won't let my body. I'll be out wait everything
Speaker 1: that I'm made, won't spend my life trying to change.
Speaker 1: I'm learning love who I am again, strong, I feel free,
Speaker 1: I know every part of me. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: And then will.
Speaker 1: Always out way if you feel it.
Speaker 2: But she'll some love to THEO. Why get there?
Speaker 1: Say God day and did you and die out way?
Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, out wigh.
Speaker 3: It's leanne here and we are back for part three
Speaker 3: of the Truth about Your Fat.
Speaker 2: And if you missed parts.
Speaker 3: One and two, definitely go ahead and check those out
Speaker 3: because everything we will talk about in parts three and
Speaker 3: four will make a lot more sense and definitely give
Speaker 3: you the context for what we are talking about here.
Speaker 2: So we talked about a few things last week that
Speaker 2: we're gonna build on today.
Speaker 3: And the first thing we talked about was this idea
Speaker 3: that you have fat, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 3: So I just invited you to instead of spending all
Speaker 3: of your energy shaming it or blaming it or fearing it,
Speaker 3: why don't we just learn about it and look at
Speaker 3: it and discover how it works. And so we talked
Speaker 3: about how you know, first of all, you can't talk
Speaker 3: about fat without talking about fascia, which is this connective
Speaker 3: tissue that is paper thin like it's kind of like
Speaker 3: a tissue, paper thin but crazy sticky like duct tape,
Speaker 3: and that it encases everything in our body and is everywhere,
Speaker 3: and I really do mean everywhere. It surrounds muscles and
Speaker 3: joints and fat and our vital organs and besides blood
Speaker 3: and oxygen. It's one of the most plentiful systems in
Speaker 3: our bodies. But also that when it comes to talking
Speaker 3: about fat and fascia, they aren't just these things that
Speaker 3: you know that live independently of our body, I should say,
Speaker 3: And they're not just affected by food and fitness.
Speaker 2: Fat and fascia.
Speaker 3: Are essentially part of your nervous system and have endocrine
Speaker 3: function and nerve function and sensory capabilities, and are sensitive
Speaker 3: to temperature and touch and are actually really smart and
Speaker 3: pliable and mouldable and something that you can influence in
Speaker 3: ways that.
Speaker 2: Don't include fitness or food.
Speaker 3: In fact, in ways that would never be affected by
Speaker 3: fitness and food.
Speaker 2: So that was thing number one.
Speaker 3: Fat and fascia are these really miraculous tissues in our body,
Speaker 3: and they have a purpose and there's more to them.
Speaker 3: Than meets the eye, and you're more in control of
Speaker 3: them than the mainstream health and fitness world is talking about.
Speaker 3: But also on that topic of health and wellness and
Speaker 3: taking care of yourself, just like you take care of
Speaker 3: your teeth and just like you take care of your muscles,
Speaker 3: I believe it would really benefit you if you started
Speaker 3: taking care of your.
Speaker 2: Fat and fascia. Okay, So that was the first thing
Speaker 2: we talked about.
Speaker 3: The second thing we talked about is more in reference
Speaker 3: to your body, body image and your relationship with your
Speaker 3: body and your fat. And I made a pretty bold statement,
Speaker 3: but it's something that I wish somebody had told me
Speaker 3: a long time ago, and it's this, Okay, you cannot
Speaker 3: self love your way to something that you don't take
Speaker 3: care of or that you flat out ignore or disregard.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if.
Speaker 3: You are totally neglecting your body or putting it last
Speaker 3: on your priority list, that's totally cool, and there's no
Speaker 3: judgment whatsoever. I simply invited you into a new way
Speaker 3: of thinking about it. And I flat out I asked you, like,
Speaker 3: what if taking care of your body and now you
Speaker 3: know that this includes your fat and your fascia, what
Speaker 3: if that was your path to self love and self
Speaker 3: esteem and self worth, and what if that was your
Speaker 3: path to making over your body. And I'm not just saying,
Speaker 3: you know, take my word for it blindly without experiencing
Speaker 3: it for yourself. Just like everything I share, I'm saying,
Speaker 3: you know, go try this on and see what serves you.
Speaker 3: And I'm just here simply sharing what works in my life,
Speaker 3: what works for my clients, and I invited you to
Speaker 3: simply try it on.
Speaker 2: And see what fits for you.
Speaker 3: And then the third thing we talked about that kind
Speaker 3: of piggybacks off.
Speaker 2: The first thing is that fat is.
Speaker 3: So cool and that fascia is so cool, and when
Speaker 3: you learn about it and what it has the power
Speaker 3: to do, like wow, You're going to be so much
Speaker 3: more equipped to take care of yourself and your health physically, mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 3: all of it. But not just take care of yourself,
Speaker 3: like actually accept yourself, all of yourself, not just parts
Speaker 3: of you or you know, oh, I'll accept myself when
Speaker 3: I lose weight, like I mean right now and while
Speaker 3: you're reaching the next level of your healing or maybe
Speaker 3: the visions that you have for your next level self okay,
Speaker 3: which brings us to today, which is Part three, and
Speaker 3: what I'm going to share next week in Part four.
Speaker 3: So let me actually give you a sneak peek. So
Speaker 3: today I'm going to share different thought processes and resources
Speaker 3: and experts who if you are interested in pursuing this
Speaker 3: whole fashia and fat conversation, that I wanted to send
Speaker 3: you in the right direction. And then next week I'm
Speaker 3: going to share with you my five point check system
Speaker 3: kind of you know, for lack of it a way of
Speaker 3: saying it, to figure out what your fat and fascia
Speaker 3: needs to be healthy. And it's essentially five different categories
Speaker 3: within your nervous system where your fat and fascia might
Speaker 3: need some attention, love, and care. Okay, So let's dive
Speaker 3: in to what I wanted to share today, and this
Speaker 3: is where I'll also say I'm not the go to
Speaker 3: expert in this field. Okay, I am just obsessed with
Speaker 3: this topic and it has radically changed my life. But
Speaker 3: there are three people specifically that have dedicated their lives
Speaker 3: and their careers and really their missions on this planet
Speaker 3: to helping people understand the nervous system and the physiology
Speaker 3: of all this fat and fascia stuff, and these people
Speaker 3: have essentially been my teachers over the years, so I
Speaker 3: simply wanted to share them with you and introduce you
Speaker 3: to them so that if you want to explore this
Speaker 3: more on your own, you can start doing that right away.
Speaker 3: And of course I'll link all the resources I share
Speaker 3: in the show notes as well. So starting with the
Speaker 3: first person I discovered when, as I told you in
Speaker 3: part one, I literally just started googling fascia about fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago, and it was a man by the name
Speaker 3: of Thomas Myers who was brought to my attention. And
Speaker 3: he is famous for his Anatomy Trains book, and it's
Speaker 3: really a theory and his book and method and theory
Speaker 3: Anatomy Trains is the best I've seen when it comes
Speaker 3: to explaining the science and the physiology of fascia, and
Speaker 3: for sure when it comes to laying out the visuals
Speaker 3: of what fascia actually looks like. Okay, in fact, that's
Speaker 3: the simplest place to start. So if somebody said to me, hey, LeeAnne, like,
Speaker 3: what's the best way to get an idea of what
Speaker 3: fascia is, where it is on the body, and what
Speaker 3: it looks like, I would literally tell you to google
Speaker 3: Thomas Myers and pull up the illustrations and diagrams on
Speaker 3: Google Images, or I definitely recommend you at his book
Speaker 3: Anatomy Trains if you want to see it in person,
Speaker 3: and literally just take a look at what fashia looks
Speaker 3: like in the body and on the body, and the
Speaker 3: multiple different lines that are running through your body, and
Speaker 3: really just looking at the pictures and just by you know,
Speaker 3: visualizing on your body what is going on in the pictures,
Speaker 3: looking at the pictures of all the different fashion lines
Speaker 3: in your body, it's enough to give you what I
Speaker 3: call an awareness, awareness, meaning it will give you an
Speaker 3: awareness of something that you didn't even know you could
Speaker 3: have awareness of. And just looking at the physical pictures
Speaker 3: of what fascia looks like in the body on the body,
Speaker 3: your sensory system will be able to pick up on
Speaker 3: that and you'll be able to actually feel it as in,
Speaker 3: you know, in and under your skin and feel your
Speaker 3: fascia on your body. And I know that's a bold claim,
Speaker 3: so definitely just take my look my word for it,
Speaker 3: or don't take my word for it, and check it
Speaker 3: out and just look at the pictures and visual on
Speaker 3: the body, and you'll see what I mean when I
Speaker 3: say you can feel it. Okay, So Thomas Myer's Anatomy Trains,
Speaker 3: he was like my teacher from Afar, and he would
Speaker 3: have no idea who I am and doesn't even know
Speaker 3: that he's affected my life, but he has. So that's
Speaker 3: a great place to start. And if you're curious, just
Speaker 3: check out anatomytrains dot com, which I will link in
Speaker 3: the show notes. The second person is who I went
Speaker 3: to to get educated after I discovered what I shared
Speaker 3: in Part one of the Truth about Your Fat And
Speaker 3: just to jog your memory, I shared that after my
Speaker 3: spine surgery, I had all these weird, you know, neurological
Speaker 3: symptoms and issues that no one could really help me heal.
Speaker 3: And I was twenty five, and I was scared what
Speaker 3: my body would be like at forty or fifty or eighty.
Speaker 3: So I had to become my own advocate and I
Speaker 3: went on my own big fat experiment.
Speaker 2: But a lot of this started when I was.
Speaker 3: Like whoa wait a minute, Like when I touch the
Speaker 3: line on my body where my surgery was right, and
Speaker 3: I followed that line all the way to my glutes,
Speaker 3: I felt different sensations in my left side than I
Speaker 3: did in my right side. Like that's literally how it started.
Speaker 3: And on one side of my body, I had all
Speaker 3: of this nerve stuff going on. So naturally I was
Speaker 3: curious like, okay, ay, what's going on here? Like this
Speaker 3: can't be normal? But b like what can I do
Speaker 3: to learn more about this? Because there is something to
Speaker 3: this right, because again I was following these lines and
Speaker 3: as wherever I innervated it and touched it, I had
Speaker 3: more sensory feedback and sensory awareness. And it's almost like
Speaker 3: my glutes turned on. And again, you know, fifteen years
Speaker 3: ago and honestly even still today, talking about the nervous
Speaker 3: system and the nerves was not really a thing in
Speaker 3: the fitness industry. So I asked around to my inner circle,
Speaker 3: and I was like, hey, who is the best of
Speaker 3: the best when it comes to the nervous system and
Speaker 3: rehabilitation and all that good stuff, Like this is not musculoskeletal,
Speaker 3: this is not joint, this.
Speaker 2: Is this is neural.
Speaker 3: I could tell I just had this feeling, right, And
Speaker 3: a couple of people in my inner circle were like,
Speaker 3: you need to go check out doctor Eric Cobb. Okay,
Speaker 3: so Doctor Cobb is the creator of ze Health Performance Solutions,
Speaker 3: And what z Health does is they are this education
Speaker 3: system for professionals, and he has it for the like
Speaker 3: the end user as well, but he's really helping professionals
Speaker 3: so that professionals.
Speaker 2: Can teach this to the mainstream.
Speaker 3: But he's dedicated his life's work to helping people get
Speaker 3: out of pain and rehabilitate their bodies, but also to
Speaker 3: the performance side of things, because you know, the nervous
Speaker 3: system is the dictator of both pain and performance.
Speaker 2: But really again not.
Speaker 3: Coming from the musculoskeletal perspective, which is what a lot
Speaker 3: of the therapy world is coming from, and coming from
Speaker 3: the nervous system, like what's going higher up that's causing
Speaker 3: all of this.
Speaker 2: So I flew out to.
Speaker 3: Phoenix to take his essentials course, and I even caught
Speaker 3: one of his courses when I was in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speaker 2: This is years ago, and I'm not exaggerating when.
Speaker 3: I say he was the gateway to my healing, Like
Speaker 3: I don't think I would have ever discovered how to
Speaker 3: heal the neural complications that I was having without him,
Speaker 3: without doctor Cobb, and so I definitely recommend that you
Speaker 3: check out zhealth if you're curious, and they have a
Speaker 3: ton of YouTube videos and a lot of free resources,
Speaker 3: and you can check out their blog on their website.
Speaker 3: And my personal go to that I recommend to all
Speaker 3: of my clients is doctor Cobbs. It's called a neural
Speaker 3: warm up like n eu r al neural warm up.
Speaker 3: It's about ten minutes long, and it's the most unique
Speaker 3: movement series I've ever experienced, and it's a game changer.
Speaker 3: If you want to just start somewhere small, that's a
Speaker 3: great place to start. But all of his courses and
Speaker 3: education systems are amazing and you can check all of
Speaker 3: that out at zhealth education dot com, which we will
Speaker 3: also link in the show notes. Okay, so that's doctor
Speaker 3: cobb another one of my brilliant teachers. And I literally
Speaker 3: like after I was, I mean, he really got me
Speaker 3: out of pain his methods that I went and invested
Speaker 3: a lot of time and money and took all of
Speaker 3: his courses and really started It's what really helped me
Speaker 3: understand the physiological side of the nervous system. But again,
Speaker 3: one of my teachers that I'm just you know, forever
Speaker 3: in debt too. And then last but not least. The
Speaker 3: third person is a woman by the name of Ashley Black. Okay,
Speaker 3: now you might have heard her from her because she
Speaker 3: is all over the internet nowadays, but she is absolutely
Speaker 3: amazing and deserves to be all over the internet Internet.
Speaker 3: And I kind of want to be like the young
Speaker 3: kids with their lingo and call her something like a
Speaker 3: boss babe or or the goat or something like that,
Speaker 3: because amazing doesn't really cover Ashley Black, but it's a star.
Speaker 3: And she was the only other person that I knew
Speaker 3: that was educating the mainstream about fashion. I remember this
Speaker 3: was back in like two thousand and seven, two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight. But she's also the creator of a tool
Speaker 3: called the fascia Blaster, and I really just need to
Speaker 3: do an episode all about fashia blasting on its own
Speaker 3: and give it its own episode. But I pretty much
Speaker 3: own anything that she's ever I'm out with, and she
Speaker 3: really is a genius. But so she discovered the world
Speaker 3: of fascia because when she was really young, she was
Speaker 3: diagnosed with a really aggressive form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
Speaker 3: which caused her to have just like these debilitating bouts
Speaker 3: of pain throughout her childhood. Right, and so she was
Speaker 3: in and out of doctor's offices pretty much her whole life,
Speaker 3: and she was told that she would need a wheelchair
Speaker 3: by the age of twenty five. Okay, but being who
Speaker 3: she is, you know, she didn't want to take that
Speaker 3: at face value, and she didn't want to settle for
Speaker 3: that as her diagnosis, and she developed her own ways
Speaker 3: to cope with the pain, using stretching and hot baths
Speaker 3: and other therapeutic modalities. Okay, But then in her mid twenties,
Speaker 3: after she gave birth to her second child, she went
Speaker 3: into the hospital for a routine procedure and she contracted
Speaker 3: a deadly bone infection that most people with this condition
Speaker 3: actually die from. But after months of excruciating pain and
Speaker 3: pretty much a miracle, she was released from the hospital
Speaker 3: and they gave her a prognosis where basically, you know,
Speaker 3: they told her that you're going to live in a
Speaker 3: life of disability and live on pain management drugs.
Speaker 2: Like that's what they told her.
Speaker 3: They're like, you're lucky to be alive, but like you're
Speaker 3: going to be disabled and you're going to be on
Speaker 3: drugs to manage the pain. So she refused to accept that,
Speaker 3: and she's like no, this is not my future. And
Speaker 3: so she again became her own advocate and became her own,
Speaker 3: you know, the dictator of her own healing journey, I
Speaker 3: should say. And so she created not just an amazing
Speaker 3: set of tools to help the mainstream impact their own
Speaker 3: fascia because you know, spoiler alert, she realized that fascia
Speaker 3: was a big piece of this pain puzzle, but she
Speaker 3: also created frameworks and teaching principles and created an amazing
Speaker 3: community and really developed an entire education system. And she's
Speaker 3: also somebody that just really empowers other women and goes
Speaker 3: above and beyond to serve her people. And I haven't
Speaker 3: met Ashley in person yet, and I say yet because
Speaker 3: I feel like our puzzle cross one day, but we've
Speaker 3: exchanged messages on Facebook a couple of times, and she's
Speaker 3: seriously just such an amazing light. So check her out
Speaker 3: as well by going to Ashley Blackguru dot com and
Speaker 3: we will post that in the show notes as well.
Speaker 3: One other quick thing I want to say about the
Speaker 3: fashion blaster side of things too, since obviously we're all
Speaker 3: about healing here on that way and obviously connecting to
Speaker 3: your body.
Speaker 2: So Ashley invented her.
Speaker 3: Tools as a healing modality, just like I shared with you, right,
Speaker 3: But just like I also shared last week, we learned
Speaker 3: that cellulite is essentially fascially bound fat that isn't broken up, right,
Speaker 3: So you can probably imagine that a lot of people
Speaker 3: use the fashion blaster as strictly a cellulite tool, So
Speaker 3: just be mindful of that when you're googling and researching.
Speaker 3: Not that fashion blasting through cellulite is a bad thing
Speaker 3: or anything like that. It's a fun silver lining, right.
Speaker 3: But I also just like wanted to invite you to
Speaker 3: get clear on the intent behind the content of anything,
Speaker 3: but in this case, fashia blasting, if you go down
Speaker 3: that road, because the last thing I want to do
Speaker 3: is cause you to you know, a new obsession like
Speaker 3: obsessing over cellulite or anything like that that might contribute
Speaker 3: to body dysmorphia when our goal is healing and health
Speaker 3: and connecting to our bodies. Okay, And so I have
Speaker 3: a feeling you all get what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're listening to this podcast, you're on that journey.
Speaker 3: But I just wanted to make sure to mention that
Speaker 3: as well. And again this is just me coming to
Speaker 3: you from a place of you know, this is my
Speaker 3: journey with with kind of taking ownership of my own
Speaker 3: debilitating pain and nerve issues after major spine surgery, which
Speaker 3: I talked about in the in the Cost of Skinny
Speaker 3: episode where you know, spine surgery was just one of
Speaker 3: the costs of obsessing over my weight. But all of
Speaker 3: that is what led me to learning about my own
Speaker 3: fat and fascia. And I'm just super passionate and purposeful
Speaker 3: about it because it has changed my life time and
Speaker 3: time again, and it still is, like, just like everything,
Speaker 3: I'm still on my own journey, and these three people
Speaker 3: have literally dedicated their life's work to these topics that
Speaker 3: the mainstream health and fitness world is still pretty much ignoring.
Speaker 3: And again I'm still shocked because you know, ten fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago, when I first started discovering some of this stuff,
Speaker 3: I was like, why isn't the world talking about this?
Speaker 3: And here we are over a decade later, and it's
Speaker 3: still not really mainstream. And that's why I'm sharing these
Speaker 3: insights on this podcast, and that's why I'm definitely inviting
Speaker 3: you to check out these three amazing humans and see
Speaker 3: what they're up to, but really to go on your
Speaker 3: own big fat experiment because there's so much to grasp
Speaker 3: and it's such an individualized process. But this will give
Speaker 3: you some tools and again cover it three dimensionally, so
Speaker 3: from the fat and fascia side to the movement side
Speaker 3: of things, to the neural mapping side of things, all
Speaker 3: of it. So that is it for today, outweigh, and
Speaker 3: I can't wait to bring you part four of this
Speaker 3: Big Fat Conversation next week where we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about the five types of fat and fascia that you
Speaker 3: might have. And again it's like I wish I knew this,
Speaker 3: then it can just become data of like, oh that
Speaker 3: makes so much sense as opposed to it used to
Speaker 3: be something I used to shame and blame and have
Speaker 3: like a really you know, negative relationship with So if
Speaker 3: you liked what you heard today and maybe you want
Speaker 3: to hear more about the process of rewiring your own
Speaker 3: brain when it comes to healing your relationship with food
Speaker 3: healing your relationship with your body, then go ahead and
Speaker 3: head on over to Stressless Eating dot com and sign
Speaker 3: up to watch the Stressless Eating webinar where I walk
Speaker 3: you through the exact five step game plan that my
Speaker 3: clients use to heal themselves from the all or nothing
Speaker 3: diet mentality for good butt. And here's the big butt,
Speaker 3: right without restricting themselves, punishing their bodies, and definitely definitely
Speaker 3: without ever having to use words like macros, low.
Speaker 2: Carb, or calorie burn.
Speaker 3: And so I've laid it all out for you in
Speaker 3: five easy steps over at Stressless Eating dot com, and
Speaker 3: we'll be back next week for more outweigh where we're
Speaker 3: going to get into part four, the final part of
Speaker 3: the Truth about Your Fat. So I'm Leahne Ellington and
Speaker 3: I will
Speaker 2: Talk to you then