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So many Life and Health Coaches follow the rhetoric “Just be positive” and “create a plan” and “have no excuses!”, but Cassandra Hope, RHN and Mindset Coach, talks to us on the Making It Real Podcast about getting to the real root of your client’s issues by helping them develop awareness of their own brain patterns and core beliefs.

In this episode, Cassandra talks to us about the incredibly sensitive topic of body dysmorphia — how to understand what it actually looks like and what the psychology is behind it. As a recovered addict, survivor of abuse and sufferer of IBS, Cassandra shares her personal journey to healing and expert knowledge, to help people reach their true potential.

Show Notes:

3:22 - How trauma can inform body dysmorphia

”I think what's missing in the health and fitness industry is an awareness of how the brain behaves once it's experienced trauma.”

4:18 - How we develop the belief that our bodies can offer us safety and acceptance

5:50 - Where health practitioners and health coaches can go to train about managing trauma in clients (How you can recognize trauma and help those with trauma)

“You want to let them know that they are having an appropriate response and that they are warriors. They've overcome a lot or they've dealt with a lot. Right? And that's an amazing thing.”

9:07 - How to approach your coaching regimen like medicine so your clients don’t go into “overdrive”

11:29 - Why “brain hacks” trick us out of real growth

12:44 - How to develop mindfulness in your clients

13:33 - How to help your clients develop new neural pathways on their journey to health

“We have to let our clients know, okay, we're working on changing your brain patterns. We're working on changing the way that you show up for yourself. But at the same time, I want you to be ready for those attackers that the opposing side to come back. They are going to come back, and how are you going to deal with that? And you kind of role-play. You get them to again, mindfully, just lovingly acknowledge it's happening again. Without any judgment, you re-pattern, you coax it into that new direction.”

16:30 - The program that changed Cassandra’s life: the Dynamic Neural Retraining System (www.retrainingthebrain.com) — how it can be a great resource for health practitioners

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