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Personal Trainer, Yogi, and Physical Therapist Kerry McGinn from Live Good, Feel Good joins me to talk about the importance of honoring oneself in order to fully live a life that feels good on all levels. Kerry shares the ups and downs of her journey, various relationships with exercise, injury and mystery illness and the role movement plays in her life today.
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“ Movement is multidimensional for me. It’s really just doing something where I can turn my focus inward to my body and start to better listen to the cues. ”
If you’re someone who is a past athlete, has had a varying relationship with exercise, or simply knows the feeling of being out of alignment - this episode is for you. Today we are joined by Boston’s Kerry McGinn of Live Good, Feel Good in a reflection on her own journey to fully honoring herself in order to embody a life that ‘actually feels good ‘. Kerry shares her adventure to quitting her job and starting her latest business venture to attempting to open up her new location amidst the 2020 quarantine putting a hold on her plans.
Kerry truly depicts the beauty of living in the true essence of mind body connection. Holding that as one of her highest values, we chat through the varying relationships with exercise that Kerry has held throughout her life to dealing with injury as an athlete, mystery illness, loss of identity and the journey realigning with her true self. We go on to discuss the dialogue of the psyche, body acceptance and not allowing external or internal dialogues that aren’t of the greatest good to affect one’s state of mind. Kerry wraps up the episode talking about the bond that movement can bring to relationships and her true love for living a life fueled by her greatest passion.
What else we talk about:
Resources:
Loving Your Own Soul is edited and managed by Sixteen Creative
Kerry truly depicts the beauty of living in the true essence of mind body connection. Holding that as one of her highest values, we chat through the varying relationships with exercise that Kerry has held throughout her life to dealing with injury as an athlete, mystery illness, loss of identity and the journey realigning with her true self. We go on to discuss the dialogue of the psyche, body acceptance and not allowing external or internal dialogues that aren’t of the greatest good to affect one’s state of mind. Kerry wraps up the episode talking about the bond that movement can bring to relationships and her true love for living a life fueled by her greatest passion.
What else we talk about:
- The physical pain our body can display when we are out of alignment
- Quitting one’s job for the betterment of the self
- Utilizing a holistic or well rounded approach to wellness in order to understand there’s multiple pieces affecting one’s health
- Experiences of being a high school and college athlete
- The benefits of having a solid team around you
- Dealing with serious injury + the healing benefits of yoga
- Pivotal situations that push us to the path we’ve been destined to go down
- Importance of strong healthy relationships during difficult times
- Understanding the lymphatic and fascial system + having a well lubricated body
- Disordered habits around exercise and food intake
- Utilizing a combination of western and eastern modalities for ultimate healing
- Identity loss + the ways the body holds stress
- Living in the present moment
Resources:
- Connect with Kerry on Instagram @livegood_feelgood_
- Check out Kerry online to work with her at https://kerrymcginn.com
- The Roll Model by Jill Miller
- Song: Higher Love - Kygo and Whitney Houston
- Melissa Wood Health Workouts
- Join our Modern Wellness Community Mornings the last Friday of every month starting at 8:00 am EST on Zoom: facebook.com/ambuwellness
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- Connect with me at lovingyourownsoul@gmail.com or on Instagram @lovingyourownsoul
Loving Your Own Soul is edited and managed by Sixteen Creative
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