How To Regain Your Mojo In Order To Live Healthier

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Are you struggling to find the mojo to get out and exercise again after you’ve experienced trauma? Maybe you’ve broken out of an abusive relationship and want to lose weight, but you just keep struggling?

Trauma, whether physical or emotional, can significantly impact your motivation and ability to engage in healthy behaviours. It’s perfectly normal to feel this way, and the journey to reclaiming your health and vitality can be challenging but incredibly rewarding. Understanding how trauma affects your mind and body is the first step towards recovery.

In this episode, we'll delve into:

The science behind how our brain, mind, and body collaborate
Understanding the motivation to exercise and why struggling to find it doesn’t mean you’re lazy or weak
Discovering your own exercise routine without feeling pressured to conform to others

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0:00.0	Are you struggling to find the mojo to get out and exercise again after you've experienced trauma?
0:09.0	Maybe you're like me that you've come out of an abusive marriage with a narcissist and really
0:14.0	want to lose weight, get fit and just keep struggling.
0:20.3	Did you know there's actually a scientific reason why it feels so hard to exercise
0:26.6	after we've experienced trauma?
0:32.9	Hi everybody.
0:34.5	Massive welcome to trauma and narcissism redefined your podcast, hopefully helping you give some light, some hope to maybe the experiences that you are going through. And of course, some education and understanding.
0:48.5	Because as you all know, I have experienced my own trauma. I was married to a covert narcissist for 12 years. We were together
0:56.8	just over 14 and I didn't even realize I was in an abusive relationship. It was only when I came
1:02.9	out and I was literally suffering with PTSD or complex PTSD as we now know. Depression, anxiety,
1:10.3	self-harm, panic attacks. And I thought it was me. I thought
1:14.2	I was weak. I thought I was stupid. I didn't realize I'd been in an abusive relationship and was
1:20.3	literally a shell of myself. So I know what it's like to come from the depths, the darkness,
1:30.2	and feel like life is going downhill.
1:36.2	You know, I was in my late 30s when I got my divorce and I literally remember sitting there thinking,
1:40.1	that's it, my life is over, is that the best years of my life now.
2:01.6	And I genuinely thought that at like 37, 38 years old. And I'm 50 now and I have to say I feel more vibrant. I feel more connected than I ever have. But one of the things that I really, really struggled with, and even now it's still something that I clearly have to work on because if you listen to my internal family systems podcast a couple of weeks ago, because IFS literally changed my life, and IFS looks at protector parts that we have
2:08.6	within us, emotional eating has always been a really strong protector part for me.
2:13.0	And it's one I still have to work with now. You know, healing isn't this magical destination.
2:17.9	It is an ongoing journey. And coupled with my emotional eating part and obviously the trauma
2:24.2	from my past, exercise was really something that I struggled with. I was either all in and almost
2:31.3	obsessive or I did nothing. So I've ran half marathons and I've, you know,
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