A personal trainer describes how taking that job unexpectedly shifted her entire life. She spent 20 years with eating disorders rooted in beliefs about her self-worth, which also drove unhealthy relationships and struggles running her studio. Confronting these internal barriers became the key to breaking the cycle.
And then it was purely accidental that I became a personal trainer. So I'd always had an interest in exercise, but I had also had about 20 years worth of eating disorders. So, you know, once I was like, I'm going to become a personal trainer. So I did that. And that was another one of those kind of sliding door moments. And it went from being something like, oh, this kind of looks quite exciting to finding myself running a personal training studio. And but that was when I realized that when we have limiting beliefs about ourselves, when we don't feel worthy, it can show up in so many different ways. So it had shown up in my eating disorders, it had shown up in staying in a crappy relationship, it showed up again in generating another crappy, destructive relationship. And then when I started working for myself, it was just horrendous.
