Change your life, for life with health coach Laura Crowder

Welcome to Living Well with MS, where we are pleased to welcome Laura Crowder as our guest! Laura is a health coach and recently joined the Overcoming MS team as an Overcoming MS facilitator. In this episode, she talks to Geoff about what the ‘Change your life for life’ pillar means, how to make lifestyle changes easier to adopt and the importance of looking at your overall lifestyle.
Topics and Timestamps:
01:02 Intro: Laura’s MS diagnosis.
02:08 Laura’s new role as an Overcoming MS facilitator.
03:48 Change your life, for life: What it means and how you can implement it.
08:18 How finding your deep ‘why’ makes lifestyle changes easier to adopt.
13:40 How you can feel empowered by following the Overcoming MS Program.
15:28 The impact of reducing alcohol on your physical and mental health.
25:48 What it means to feed the soul and the body.
Selected Key Takeaways:
Positive lifestyle changes can have immediate health effects.
05:08 “The minute I read [the Program was] evidence based, I thought, ‘I've got to read this.’ I read the entire book, and I jumped straight in. I implemented the diet and the vitamin D straight away, I couldn't do much about the exercise at the time, because I was still off my feet. Eventually, I started walking and then running. It was brilliant. I felt the effects instantly, I think because my previous lifestyle was so poor.”
Some people find reducing alcohol consumption can have a positive impact on mental and physical health.
17:05 “Karen Law speaks about this in the Overcoming MS Handbook about how she just noticed that her stress response was better without alcohol in the mix. I think that was probably quite a significant part for me as well. My running improved hugely, I actually completed my first marathon last year, and just my health in general [improved]. So, for me, I decided that I didn't want to start drinking again.”
Our health is impacted by our overall lifestyle.
27:00 “Our health is not just what we eat, it isn't just exercise [or] supplementation. Things like our career, relationships and finances, these aspects of our lives are so important in terms of nourishing us. If we're dealing with conflict or unresolved issues, or if we have got very destructive or negative relationships in our lives, that's going to have a really adverse effect on our health, even if we're eating all the superfoods in the world.”
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