Phantom Electric Ghost Interview Emily Flood Fitness Coach: "Unshaming Fitness by Reprogramming Your Brain"

Phantom Electric Ghost Interview Emily Flood Fitness Coach: "Unshaming Fitness by Reprogramming Your Brain" Biography Emily is an online fitness & life coach who integrates ritual, psychology, & magical mindset practices with her clients. She competed on the national bodybuilding stage in 2020 & has since been focused on lifting for strength. Her mission is to take shame out of the fitness industry by reprogramming the brain for self love. About Emily Like most women, I got into fitness because I didn't like the way my body looked. My mind ran on a constant dialogue of self hate & anxiety was my day to day norm--to my infinite shame. I threw myself into competitive bodybuilding to battle the post college isolation & loneliness & spent years tracking every single gram of food without ever being allowed to eat out all the way until I competed on the national stage in 2020. As you can imagine I developed some incredible disordered eating habits & fell into binge eating behaviors shortly after. As a fitness coach myself at this point I felt an incredible amount of shame--like I was a total fraud! I set out on a quest to "fix" myself, my eating behaviors, & my anxiety. 2.5 years later after multiple courses, mentorships, & an ADHD diagnosis... I realized that it had been shame itself that directed my disordered eating behaviors as well as my anxiety. In thinking myself as broken, I was fueling the self hate & "not good enough" dialogue that all of my clients also struggled with. Through unshaming my own life: learning to love & accept my full authentic self, I publicly came out as a witch, started to integrate magical mindset practices (which are truly just "spicy psychology" meditations, journeywork, & rituals to get your creative right brain on board) with my clients along with life coaching techniques I'd learned from my many mentors including emotional regulation, somatics, & limiting belief shifting. Through the experience I also escaped an emotionally abusive relationship with someone who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  I'm extremely passionate about unshaming fitness because frankly, we all have trauma. Whether that was bullying, abuse, assault, or simply growing up with all the messages around what women are "supposed" to look like & eat, how we're supposed to behave, what we're supposed to wear etc... all of that compounds in the brain as shame. "I'm not good enough, I need to fix myself, I always mess up, I'm too much for people etc." And this dramatically impedes people from having success on a fitness journey because it activates the fight or flight portion of the brain, which is also responsible for our trauma responses. The fitness industry is full of coaches who use shame to motivate their clients: shame for what people eat, what their bodies look like, shaming clients for being "lazy or undisciplined" etc & this just keeps people stuck. It's my life's mission to change this & to help people tackle their fitness journeys from self love by reprogramming their brains for self love. I've been mindfully eating for the last year, have not experienced binge eating behaviors in a very long time, & am training for a powerlifting (strength based) competition. Link: https://instagram.com/emyogi_fit Support PEG by checking out our Sponsors: Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription. The best tool for finding guest for your podcast: https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghost Subcribe to our YouTube to watch our latest podcasts and musical endeavours. https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost Subscribe to our Instagram to get exclusive content: https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost