Jess Spinner on Dealing with Food, Body Pressure, Judgement, Restrictive Dieting and more

I'm super excited to have the beautiful Jessica Spinner on the pod this week.Jess is a former professional dancer with the Louisville Ballet. She is also the founder of The Whole Dancer and has worked with professional dancers from top companies including New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet and more.Jess and I go way back to my earlier days as a coach and it was amazing to connect with her again and chat all about some great topics like transforming your relationship with your body and food, the idea of perfection and the 'ideal body', dealing with emotions without using food and the evolution of The Whole Dancer.Take a listen!TIME STAMPSHow Jess became a professional dancer with Louisville Ballet (2.08)Body image struggles and negative body feedback (3.40)The normalisation of negative body talk and restrictive dieting (6.45)The 'perfect' dancer's body and where it originated (8.09)Transforming relationship with body and food (11.30)Letting go of other people's judgements (14.27)Dealing with emotions without food (18.14)Jess's daily healthy habits (21.45)Founding The Whole Dancer and the evolution of her coaching business (23.30)Shifting the focus from external to internal (29.04)Jess's biggest lessons from failure and rejection (34.05)Busing through blocks before you're ready (36.23)Find Jess on IG @thewholedancerwww.thewholedancer.comFind more on Rach at:IG: http://instagram.com/rachjay__TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@rachjay_Website: http://racheljay.coThe Core Club: http://thecoreclub.co[FREE] Core Session: https://mailchi.mp/642df45b141c/coreclub-waitlistThe Journal: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0DP2TMQNF?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzrachel0c-22&creativeASIN=B0DP2TMQNF&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.34T0JF3Y9AY86&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asinAmazon Book List: https://www.amazon.com.au/shop/rachjay__