Plan to Feel Great - Changing mindset, improving health and losing weight
Are you ready to crack your personal code for staying active, healthy and fit? Genetics and family history don’t make all the rules. Learn how to OWN your health!
Dr. Lauren Crigler has been in the trenches of poor health: severe back pain, pregnancy issues, and difficulty with weight loss and management. Rather than accepting any of those as fate, she had a different path. She became a personal trainer and running coach. She majored in nutrition, focused on psychology and went on to become a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Her drive to create better mental and physical health proved to be successful beyond expectation. And… she is passionate about helping YOU do the same!
Through a decade of keeping journals of patient problems, interventions and their outcomes, she found an important pattern: mindset is EVERYTHING. And making plans is the key to success.
She knows her niches well: back pain, pelvic issues, pregnancy and weight loss. But more importantly, she brings to the table her experience with goals setting, planning and mindset. Whether you want to improve your health and fitness, or dig deeper into how to create great mental and physical health…click subscribe so you can follow along and Plan to Feel Great!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
#35: Belly Breathing techniques for relaxation, decreased pain and improved digestion.
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#34: Deep Belly Breathing for relaxation decreased pain and improved digestion.
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#33: Urge Incontinence - Urine for a surprise on how to stop peeing uncontrollably!
Today we’re talking about a topic that doesn’t feel all that mellow yellow: the experience of peeing when you don’t want to be peeing. It’s called urinary incontinence (UI), and it affects A LOT more…
#32: Take responsibility for your health and find your power!
Remember that 90s pop song where the woman sang, "I've got the power!"? She's right. She does, and you do, too!
There may be many things in life that we don’t have control over, but there is quite a …
#31: Hydration - for health, weight loss and athletic performance.
Raise your hand if you know you drink the proper amount of water each day!
How much is the proper amount, you ask? Roughly 0.5 oz to 1 oz of water per pound of body weight per day. (Do you still have…
#30: Automatic Healthy Behaviors - Imagine making healthy choices without even meaning to.
Sometimes it seems like our BAD habits occur so easily and effortlessly, don’t they? Why aren’t we as compelled to eat broccoli as we are to eat cupcakes?! But there is a way to get ourselves to pa…
#29: Arthritis - An up to date look at joint pain.
Arthritis is swelling and tenderness in your joints. Osteoarthritis, one of the most common types which more than 27 million Americans suffer from, causes a breakdown in your cartilage - the hard, sl…
#28: Forming good habits - successful people are specific!
Which statement sounds more believable: "I am trying to improve my back pain," or "I am reducing my back pain by doing deep core strengthening and back extensions every day for 10 minutes at 7:30 am …
#27: How to kick a bad habit by paying attention to cues.
When you go to the movie theater, is it a given that you buy popcorn? What about on your morning commute: do you pass a doughnut shop and pop in for a coffee and a few glazed holes?
How often do you …
#26: Sleep - the 5 essentials for a good night's rest.
Sleep and health, pain and weight loss are intricately connected. Sleeping well and feeling rested are essential!
#25: The company we keep - how everyone around you is changing your brain.
Got negative people in your life who are trying to rain on your goals? Our first instinct may be to avoid them, but depending on how close they are in your life, that’s not always possible. So It’s i…
#24: Retrain your brain to THINK things better - using neuroplasticity to reach your health fitness and weightloss goals
If you’ve been listening closely to the last two episodes, you now understand that you can work out your brain the way you work out at the gym! It’s called neuroplasticity and it’s likely something t…
#23: Retrain your brain to DO things better - using neuroplasticity to meet your health, fitness,and weight loss goals.
This week's episode dives deeper into the heady (pun intended) topics Dr. Alicia Flach and I covered in episode 22. As a professor of neurological physical therapy, we talked about how the brain's pa…
#22: Neuroplasticity - Change your brain, change your life! - with Dr. Alicia Flach
This week’s episode dives deep into neuroplasticity - the brain’s ability to change and reorganize itself and the way it functions!
My dear friend and colleague, Dr. Alicia Flach, a professor in neur…
#21: Playing to your strengths - Meet your goals without struggling!
In episode 21 of the podcast, we’re exploring exactly what it means to play to your strengths. It really is the best strategy in life, because the things that we focus on are the things that grow, ri…
#20: Constipation - Pull up a stool and let's chat
In this episode, we dive deep into how you can get things moving… and no, we’re not just talking about exercise. We’re talking about another kind of moving, one that keeps you regular, one that start…
#19: Building your base and prehab for life - improve strength, speed, and health.
We’ve all heard of the word rehab, right? It means to recover or heal after an injury or addiction. But what about the word prehab? In short, prehab means to get in shape before anything unsavory occ…
#18: How to have beautiful healthy skin: Best tips from a dermatologist - with Dr. Holly Glover
We all want beautiful, glowing skin, and there are more products out there than ever before promising that dream. That's why it's so helpful to have Dr. Holly Glover on this episode to talk all thing…
#17: Perfectionism - 3 ways that striving for perfect prevents health and weight loss.
Episode 17 tackles the giant elephant in the room that is currently squashing many of us: perfectionism. I happen to be a recovering perfectionist myself, and I still struggle with it. It’s something…
#16: The secrets to great teeth from a dentist and orthodontist - with Drs. Andy and Ambre Kragor
Have you ever wondered why some people get cavities, while others with a major sweet tooth might not? It actually could be genetics! That’s a bummer to learn, but there are factors that you can contr…