Rachel Black Graves: The Power of Womxn, Intentional Community & True Inclusivity
Rachel Black Graves is an ex-corporate warrior turned community builder, boundary expert, mindest, and fitness professional. She is a trainer, coach and owns her own gym in the greater Hartford area. She is passionate about helping womxn realize their health and fitness goals without becoming a slave to the via intense, efficient workouts, sustainable nutrition, accountability, and empathy. She helps folks shed the old stories of shame and tap into inner strength they didn’t know they had. In an industry asking womxn to shrink down, she asks them to stand up. In a culture that tells them to be smaller, she wants to help them get stronger. In a time when womxn are told to stay quiet, she wants to help them find their unique voice. In a world that engrains self-loathing in womxn from the time They can speak, she wants to teach self-love and self-care as a way of BECOMING exactly who they are supposed to be in this world. In this episode, we dive into: ● How a near-heart attack in Rachel’s early twenties (from stress) created a cataclysmic shift in her life plan. ● How important it is to honor the “heart invitations” even when they are scary and/or inconvenient. ● How focusing on SERVING instead of GETTING has created a community that is incredibly loyal to Rachel’s gym and community. ● The responsibilities we have as humans and wellness leaders to unpack our unconscious biases and conditioning around body size, race, gender, and sexuality and sex-workers. ● As a health and wellness leader, the importance of doing your homework on someone else’s cultural identity (it is as important as understanding their health). ● What is beautiful in other cultures is not necessarily what is considered beautiful in OUR conditioning. How it tears someone’s sense of self and pride away from them. Projection. ● What true inclusivity means: It is not just talking, but walking the walk (including race, body size, gender identity, economic status, and even sex positivity). ● How complete self-acceptance in our CURRENT body leads to faster inner and outer transformation at an accelerated pace, while bringing more peace. You can find Rachel at: Rachel Black Graves on IG & Facebook Fit Body Bloomfield on IG & Facebook You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, “The Secrets in Your Sabotage” at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth’s TedX RIGHT HERE.