When Healthy Habits Become an Obsession

When does discipline stop being healthy and start taking over your life? Rachel Blogg sits down with adaptive performance advisor Alyssa Spaw for an honest conversation about bodybuilding, body image, disordered eating, perfectionism, and the complicated relationship high performers can develop with exercise, nutrition, and their own expectations.

Alyssa opens up about how fitness initially made her feel strong and empowered before competitive bodybuilding became tied to restriction, bingeing, over-exercising, and an identity she eventually knew she needed to leave behind. She and Rachel share their own experiences with extreme exercise and disordered eating while exploring what sustainable wellness actually looks like. They also talk about adapting health habits during difficult seasons, letting go of all-or-nothing thinking, and why sometimes five minutes of movement is exactly what your mind and body need.

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