Congruent with Lisa Carpenter | The truth beneath success. Why it never feels like enough.

Why Being Committed to an Outcome Can Leave You Screwed

Do you have certain things you’re desperate to achieve? Many of us have a goal we’ve struggled to attain and have spent way more time than desired in pursuit of it. But we can choose to feel how we want to feel about our goals now and not just when we reach the finish line. In this episode, I discuss what attachment to the outcome of your goals looks like, how it negatively affects your results, and what you can do to detach.
4:21 - Why I needed to stay detached from the outcome with my podcast
7:55 - What you’re missing when you’re attached to the outcome
13:58 - The irony many face when playing the weight loss game
15:14 - Where to put your focus instead if you want to achieve your outcome
17:02 - How I deal with uncertainty around the outcome of my upcoming WBFF show
24:40 - What you should do to attain true freedom and feel your best every day
27:15 - Why you do yourself a disservice by only using this one metric to measure your progress
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Free Yourself from Being Stuck in the Buzz of the Daily Grind

Something happened last week that I want to talk about today. It highlights how we’re all connected, something that Mother Nature shows us all the time. But what happened also carries a common message that I needed to hear and want to share with you. So in this episode, I reveal what happened, how the message I got out of it has already changed my life, and how it can change yours too.
3:26 - The joy and necessity I find in shaking up my routine sometimes
8:08 - The magical thing that happened in my backyard last week
12:00 - The lesson we really need to understand from Mother Nature
14:45 - How I’ve become more discerning and the position I thought I’d never be in
16:54 - What’s often required of you if you’re struggling to accomplish the things you want
19:31 - The powerful medicine that comes with bees
22:08 - How nature demonstrates our ability to defy what’s possible
27:22 - Looking at who decides how you choose to live your life
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Why Aren’t You Worth Your Time and Energy?

I see women struggle with self-care all the time. They’re taking care of so many things between family, career, volunteering and community service, and so on. Yet, they don’t have time to take care of themselves...or so they think.
If you’re not making time for yourself as a priority, what’s it costing you? And how does it look to the people around you, especially your kids? You truly have the power to take care of yourself, even if you believe otherwise, and in this episode I show you how. If you’re tired of being tired, you don’t want to miss this!
3:51 - What you really mean when you say you don’t have time to take care of yourself
7:15 - Why self-care is the most selfless thing you can give yourself
8:32 - What you’ll discover by taking inventory of all of your activities
11:37 - The more self-care you practice, the easier it’ll be to deal with this
12:27 - Why I see self-care as a way of being, not a way of doing
13:37 - How I practice self-care and ideas for what to include in your own self-care list
18:40 - The self-care commitment you must make to yourself as a priority
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Why Weight Loss is NOT the Same as Show Prep

When it comes to changing weight and body composition, too many women have unrealistic expectations and a very disordered relationship with their body and food. I follow someone on Instagram who’ll be at the upcoming World Beauty Fitness and Fashion show, and she did a story around competition prep and dieting that I really appreciated and thought was important to share. So in today’s episode, I talk about why you shouldn’t treat show prep as a pathway to weight loss.
4:35 - What you must understand about competition diet and body transformation
6:07 - How show prep can perpetuate more suffering if you’re in it for the wrong reason
8:14 - Where your body transformation really starts
9:53 - How to protect yourself when faced with triggering factors about your body
11:11 - The place where you’ll most often find your weight loss results
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How to Say No Without Feeling Like a B*&#@

Are you comfortable saying no to people when you want to? Or do you take on things you don’t want so that others won’t call you a b*@? Your energy is your #1 priority, but lacking boundaries leaks it from you like a sieve. It’s your responsibility to plug in the holes.
So in this episode, I talk you through setting clear boundaries and share some of my own stories. I also cover how to deal with your guilt and other people’s reactions when you draw that uncrossable line in the sand. The reward waiting for you on the other side is not only worth it but also serves as a stepping stone toward having a wonderful relationship with yourself first!
4:58 - What boundaries are not about
7:08 - What happened the 1st time I set a big boundary with someone close to me
10:34 - Examples of what weak boundaries look like
17:11 - Beware of using boundaries for these reasons
24:46 - What boundary setting requires from you
30:12 - How to apply this Brené Brown quote when setting boundaries
35:03 - What you teach others when you fail to follow through on your boundaries
39:20 - Things you can and can’t control when setting your boundaries
42:38 - Takeaways to help you start setting boundaries
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Discovering the Real Meaning Behind Your Chronic Pain with Jake Currie

Have you suffered from a chronic injury that won’t heal no matter what methods you try? How relieved would you feel to be free of the constant ache and worry that you’re destined to live out the rest of your life this way? All it might take to heal your chronic pain is an emotional shift.
Today, I’ve brought on a very special guest Jake Currie, founder of Mind Body Masters. Originally a chiropractor, he quit and sold his successful practice in 2018. Contending with unexplained chronic pain and injuries all his life, he's dedicated himself to understanding the causes of pain, how to eliminate them, and helping others heal from the inside out.
I’m a beneficiary of his work firsthand. In this episode, he and I discuss uncovering the emotional specifics behind your chronic condition and how you have the power to heal yourself physically and emotionally.
7:14 - How Jake discovered German New Medicine and healed his groin pain
11:21 - Why the reemergence of my old hamstring injury became a turning point in my life
15:12 - The devastating effect that chronic stress has on your muscles and joints
16:32 - The truth behind the timing of your pain and using that to help you find answers
18:01 - Discover your neurological wiring and what pain on different sides of the body mean
19:30 - How Jake discovers the root cause of people’s pain and helps shift it
24:53 - An analogy that demonstrates how pain in your body works for your benefit
28:00 - Why symptoms are blessings and what pain really indicates about your emotional state
31:35 - Why most people falsely believe that pain is purely physical
33:43 - What so many of the women I see don’t recognize about their weight
34:36 - The state people fall into that becomes a distraction and a full-time job
40:19 - My fear about what’ll happen if we don’t deal with our trauma from the pandemic
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Why Women Can Often Succumb to Self-Sabotaging Their Own Growth

Many of you who’ve worked with me or listened to this podcast see me as this confident, empowered woman who always has her shit together. Yet, I still face struggles that can undermine my own growth.
One of my biggest challenges involves the upcoming World Beauty Fitness & Fashion (WBFF) show in Las Vegas. In eight weeks, I’ll be walking on its stage as a contestant. It’s a goal of mine that’s been two-and-a-half years in the making.
But twice now I’ve had to confront a fear in my preparation for it. In this episode, I talk about my challenge and how the fear underneath it reflects the subtle yet toxic belief of so many women that stops us from evolving past our comfort zone.
4:24 - One big challenge I faced during my preparation for the WBFF contest
5:44 - How my client called me out on my own bull
7:21 - How I plan to show up on that WBFF Vegas stage now
9:14 - The belief that causes so many women to secretly sabotage themselves
10:45 - Why shame keeps you trapped in addictive behaviors
13:07 - How to begin to unravel your own self-sabotage
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Rolling the Health & Wellness Dice in Your Favor with Healthy Weight

In the U.S., 73.69% of the population is considered overweight or obese. In Canada, that number is 63% of the population. Those numbers are staggering and trouble me, especially in light of the pandemic where your chances of hospitalization for COVID triple. And that’s not to mention the myriad of other health issues you have to worry about, pandemic or no pandemic.
If you’ve been tuning into this podcast for a while, you know that a significant portion of my career has been focused on the physical well-being of the people I work with. And while I’ve moved away from concentrating solely on weight, I do want to talk about weight today, the problems it causes, taking personal responsibility for your health, and why it matters.
4:47 - Health traps and food conveniences many of us have fallen into
10:57 - What you really tell yourself with restrictive stories about getting healthier
16:06 - The #1 strategy for creating success and better health
18:13 - Your health and yourself at age 70, 80, or 90
22:16 - Getting help if you’re doing the right things but your body isn’t changing
26:58 - Seeing your body as a way to reflect your own feelings back at you
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Peaceful Food Relationships for Parents & Kids with Belinda Smith

Today, I’m so excited to introduce you to a dear client of mine, Belinda Smith. She has an impressive resume, but I wanted her on the show because her vision and mission and mission is so in alignment with the physical and emotional well-being I talk about on this podcast.
As a mom and health coach, she’s one the leading independent voices for children’s health in Australia and a fierce proponent for real food in schools. She and her husband have spent over two years traveling around Australia visiting hundreds of schools and empowering kids to choose healthier eating. But she’s also all about making it easier for parents to make better food choices to inspire their kids to do the same.
6:27 - Why Belinda feels so passionate about this
12:25 - Many women don’t trust themselves with food
21:18 - Stored memories and how they affect our relationship with food
24:56 - How we grow out of knowing how to eat as adults
29:06 - Belinda discusses a family before and after joining her membership
35:32 - Final message from Belinda
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How Using the Power of Choice Sets You Free

“Make the choice before you make the choice.” My mentor Jim Fortin uttered this powerful statement. It really hit me and I want to share with you why. Choice is such a powerful concept when you understand that in every moment of every day, you have the power to choose. So in this episode, I discuss the power of choice, something so many struggle with and something I hope you’ll come to understand.
3:46 - How I still allow room for choice in my pre-planned decisions
8:04 - Taking a hard look at where you’re winging it
11:02 - How the power of choice gives you real freedom
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