When you think of the fitness and wellness industry, you may think of weight loss, nutritional guidance, lifting weights, and endless amounts of cardio. You may also be feeling attacked by the fitness and wellness field. It’s like a toxic ex who keeps gaslighting you into feeling like they’ll change but then ends up blaming you for the downfalls. Honestly, I am working on not feeling ashamed when saying I am a personal trainer because I do not like feeling like I’m clumped in that field. Because the fitness and wellness industry is in large part just another way that diet culture has tried to control our bodies and minds into believing it is for our betterment. That it is a “lifestyle change” and if you just follow all of these rules, you will have your dream body.

And you know what I have to say about that? SCREW THAT!

We have lived in a society that has profited off of every one of us that hates our bodies. Every diet, cookbook/nutrition program, TV show, exercise guide, magazine, and tabloid. It’s all meant to make us feel like there is something wrong with the way that we look and that we need to change to fit into the very small box that society deems worthy of love. A box that is impossible to fit into. 

For all of us who have exercised until we couldn’t move the next day, stopped eating certain food groups because they have been demonized, have been told by ill-trained doctors that our size is indicative of health problems, that weight loss is the only true way to be happy again, you are not alone. When study after study is coming out that proves that diets do not work and are actually putting our bodies into shutdown, survival modes, when do we finally put a stop to it? When millions of dollars are being poured into the “wellness” field (aka just a cover-up for diets) and diet aids are put onto shelves/media, when do we stop spending money on ways to “fix” our bodies and start investing in ways to begin to heal our relationships with our bodies?

That, right there, is exactly why I started my own personal training company. Because I never want someone to feel like they are alone. To feel like they do not have value because they have been taught to hate their growing bodies. To be afraid to eat foods that we need to nourish our bodies and minds with in order to live. Living in a society that finds it easier to control us because we are neglecting our minds and bodies based on rules diet culture has created, my vision is to help us feel reconnected to our bodies to fight diet culture’s grasp it had on us and take back our lives once again.

As a body trust trainer, I have created My Health Matters Fitness to be a safer space for all to regain or enhance their power mentally, physically, and emotionally. We prioritize trauma-informed coaching practices to promote weight-inclusive health, emphasizing a shift away from diet culture. I have teamed up with amazing, anti-diet culture businesses and added amazing trainers/group movement instructors to my team to make sure that you are well supported during this journey of taking back your life.