22 Neuroscience PhD and Movement Educator Jessica Groves-Chapman: For Strength, Health, Happiness, & Connectedness, Move!

In this episode, neuroscientist and movement expert Jessica Groves-Chapman helps us explore movement, its role in our life, and the interactions of movement, cognition, confidence, lifestyle, and emotion. She gives us insight -- in theory and in practice -- into living a more balanced, connected life.We discuss:-her background-her fitness and movement journey-how parents and teachers can be "movement models" for children and can teach them to judge risks and know their limits-how parents and teachers can find time to move and exercise-the interplay of work stress, emotion, background, movement, exercise-how we can all find the courage inside ourselves to be better and overcome obstaclesTo support the show and help us grow our audience -- so we have more of an impact on education and the culture -- please help us with a donation or contribution:1. https://www.patreon.com/reasonrxpodcast 2. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SP6QPQKJU4XSS&source=url Also, please consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.And if you find an episode valuable, please share it with parents, teachers, school personnel, friends, and family. Help spread the word, help spread rational ideas for better living. About Jessica: Jessica -- BA Psychology, MS Kinesiology, PhD Neuroscience, NASM CPT, MovNat Certified Trainer -- began her journey into movement through academia, pursuing degrees in psychology, kinesiology, and neuroscience; with an emphasis on the effects of physical activity on the brain and human behavior. She has also been a runner for many years, having completed a handful of 5ks, a 10k, two half-marathons, and a marathon. After experiencing an injury during marathon training, she began exploring movement in the form of natural movement education through MovNat. She attended her first workshop in March 2017 and completed her Level II certification in March 2018. Training for MovNat allowed her to access the strength and capability she did not know she possessed. More importantly, it allowed her to explore movement just as her growing children were, from the ground up. She learned how to breathe again, she strengthened her core, she found a passion for BETTER movement. Currently, Jessica is working towards a certification in Pre- and Postnatal Coaching through Girls Gone Strong. She brings the totality of her education, training, and personal experience into every session and workshop. She not only believes that strength has no gender, she lives it every day.More about Jessica:1. "Jessica’s Journey To MovNat:" https://www.movnat.com/jessica-my-journey/2. "Jessica’s Story Of Inner Strength And Giving Your All With Natural Movement Fitness:" https://www.movnat.com/jessicas-story-natural-movement-fitness/3. "Natural Movement For Women: An Interview With 3 MovNat Certified Trainers:" https://www.movnat.com/natural-movement-for-women-an-interview-with-3-movnat-certified-trainers/4. Athens Movement Practice (Jessica's business): http://www.athensmovementpractice.com/amp3d/For consulting, workshops, etc, contact Jessica and her business partner Marvin at: http://www.athensmovementpractice.com/amp3d/Contact Melanie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-katragadda-nctm-9b14522aContact Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/ or http://goldams.com/External Links:1. MovNata. The Website of MovNat: https://www.movnat.comb. MovNat's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovNatc. MovNat training at Wildfitness in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4nmu6mZd4sd. Some intermediate-level MovNat workouts outdoors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91s9A4XgvuUe. Erwin LeCorre's article The History of Physics Fitness: https://www.movnat.com/history-of-fitness/f. The Practice of Natural Movement book by Erwan LeCorre: https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Natural-Movement-Reclaim-Freedom/dp/162860283X/g. MovNat Movement Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0XEBKYNfU&list=PLC5sbdn5ESCRN_VeYcEimsilu7IXiLmP_h. MovNat videos showing 100+ movements done with good technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVdaMhrNhzQ&list=PLC5sbdn5ESCSKU66Fbp6stQFPLaNQ8ribi. Find a MovNat Trainer near you: https://www.movnat.com/find-a-trainer/2. Eric Browna. https://movnatdallas.com/movnat-dallas-team/b. https://www.natmfitness.com3. Katy Bowmana. Her Website: https://www.nutritiousmovement.comb. Her books: https://www.amazon.com/Katy-Bowman/e/B0057HLJY2?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1562879117&sr=8-14. Julie Angela. Her Website: http://julieangel.comb. Her book Breaking the Jump: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Jump-Julie-Angel-ebook/dp/B01G8TDJ1S/5. Epigenetics basicsa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k50yMwEOWGUb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aAhcNjmvhcc. https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/what-is-epigenetics/d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigeneticse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/6. Epigenetics and micea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvB0q3mg4sQb. https://www.nature.com/news/fearful-memories-haunt-mouse-descendants-1.14272c. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24677-fear-of-a-smell-can-be-passed-down-several-generations/7. The guppies experiment (work of Dr. Axel Meyer (University of Konstanz), postdoc Dr. Amber Makowicz, Prof. Dr. Thomas Elbert (University of Konstanz), PhD student Daniela Conrad): "Stress & Epigenetics: How Fishes Contribute to the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9b5SXHBfU8. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris: https://www.amazon.com/Deepest-Well-Long-Term-Childhood-Adversity/dp/0544828704/9. TED talk "Minding your mitochondria" by Dr. Terry Wahls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc10. TED talk "Dystonia. Rewiring the brain through movement and dance: by Federico Bitti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwkHK3rfKO011. "Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur's Inspirational Transformation!" (Arthur Boorman's story of how he was helped by Diamond Dallas Page): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu44812. What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins: https://www.amazon.com/What-Every-Body-Saying-Speed-Reading/dp/0061438294/13. Without Saying a Word: Master the Science of Body Language and Maximize Your Success: by Kasia Wezowski and Patryk Wezowski: https://www.amazon.com/Without-Saying-Word-Language-Maximize/dp/081443973X/14. Mind is for movementa. TED talk "Why the Brain is Built for Movement" by Anders Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9p3Z7L0f0Ub. TED talk "The real reason for brains" by Daniel Wolpert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s0CpRfyYp815. Books about epigenetics (have not read them, just mentioning them for your consideration).a. The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance by Nessa Carey: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-Revolution-Rewriting-Understanding-Inheritance-ebook/dp/B0074MTTEK/b. Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission First Editionby Joel D. Wallach D.V.M, Ma Lan M.D., Gerhard N. Schrauzer Ph.D.: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-Genetic-Theory-Disease-Transmission/dp/1590791495/c. Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes by Richard C. Francis: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-How-Environment-Shapes-Genes/dp/039334228X/d. You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease by Judith Finlayson and Kent Thornburg: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Your-Grandparents/dp/0778806332/Image courtesy Jessica Groves-ChapmanPlease consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.Email us at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/Gold Academy: https://goldams.comTotal Human Fitness: https://total-human-fitness.com