Your body is talking to you, are you listening? | Lizzie Braicks-Rinker | TEDxUofW
Lizzie dissects the wellness industrial complex and reframes health holistically. Lizzie Braicks-Rinker is a well-rounded wellness enthusiast. With certifications in pilates, fitness, and health coaching, she is passionate about helping others navigate the modern world with less stress and anxiety.
Lizzie competed as a D1 rower in college until losing her mom to colon cancer. After losing her mom, Lizzie wanted to understand how to nourish herself spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. She's since become a passionate advocate for understanding wellness on a holistic level. The core of her work centers around learning how to listen to what our bodies and brains truly need, and to tune out toxic messaging that we receive around food, exercise, and body image.
She believes that being healthy is about more than just exercising - that it is also about feeding your soul with the things you love and having a healthy approach to life's challenges. Lizzie currently lives with her family and dogs in Seattle, WA. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I recommend people picking up the book by Gabor Mate “when the body says no”. Many times we are not listening to the body or taking care of traumas that are impacting us. The body does not forget what has occurred to you and this can lead to a variety of chronic illnesses.
many thanks for the suggestion - book ordered :)
@@nicoleeigner9060 I hope it speaks to you and helps you♥️ love and healing vibes
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Awesome! Thanks for the title and recommendation.
Thank you!
I really admire her ability to be vulnerable in front of an audience while talking about her mother's death. I watched my dad die of cancer, so I truly know how she felt.
Same here. I lost my father to lung cancer. He’s the greatest man in my whole life. I dont think that I can get over this loss…
@@chautrinh5805 I'm so sorry. My dad was my greatest man, too. There is no getting over it, but there is growing from it. 🤍
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She is so right in what she says and points out in this talk. I realised lately that being in physically good shape is only part of being able to feel good. My mental state is struggling and there is no joy almost in anything. Without being 'healthy' mentally, it is impossible to be 'healthy' and content with myself and the world and the fact that we are here for only a short time.
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Love your message about wellness. I am 65 and am finally understanding how to support my wellness.
totally awesome session. so compassionate and so adaptable.
This moved me to my core. Thank you for your wisdom! ❤
My body finally Made me stop and de-stress with a life threatening condition. I lost 55 lbs on the cancer diet. Had to clean up my diet. Manage and eliminate my sources of stress. So far with prayers and hard work and modern medicine I’m getting better.
Remarkable perspective. This makes so much sense. True wellness needs to be embedded in the things we love. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
This was so REAL!! Thank you so much ❤
This was an absolutely incredible talk! Lizzie, you absolutely "get it" and you so beautifully articulated what I like to call person centered wellness. Our individual wellness journey is unique to our personal experiences, environment, culture, relationships and so much more. Thank you for this amazing talk.
So good! Thank you for speaking out to this!
I love everything about this!!! Great job Lizzie!!! I need to give these talks to those around me and in my area!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
thank you for being so vulnerable
As someone who lost my dad to a sudden fatal illness, I felt for her and the ways that she shared about her mom. This is such a brave presentation and such a wonderful message. You really do understand health/wellness in a different way when you watch someone you love take their last breaths. Holistic wellness is so so so important!
Thank you for this talk and sharing your real life.
Thank you for this Lizzie! I appreciate you!
Love this talk very much 💖
Beautiful presentation, thank you 👏
I am so happy to have gone over what I know deep down is the truth of what she share with so many of us including myself obsessing about wellness but not pausing and re-evaluating our actions and thought processes of stressing about everything I enjoy this video and it was an insightful reminder of what is exactly I need for my wellness journey thank you I am filled with much gratitude by this lecture what touches me most when she shares about her mom passing she has a smile and to be it shows this lecture is not only educating her audiences but celebrating who her mom was by remembering these important and loving details I love this so much 🙏🏽
Love it 💕 soon your message will spread across the world 🌎 🙏🏽
Literally that quote made me cry!🥹
Honestly! Thank you! I am turning 50 this year and I am just beginning to come home to myself. Thanks for the confirmation and the access to see myself as well and that my environment has to pull for that too. I am more inspired by this and now I am going to delete all the yoga instructors I am following wishing I could morph my 50 year old body back to it’s 20something shape. I honestly like my body the way it is and I just want to get stronger as I grow older and also have all the other parts of my life working.
Thank you. ❤
Outstanding and very impactful!! This talk covers various perspectives surrounding health I had not considered. Thank you.
A well needed talk!
I think I definitely needed this talk thank you
That quote at the end is my favorite too! Great talk!
Wow that was really good and inspiring... thank you - totally agree that if we really listen to our bodies we would be healthier and happier humans.
First time watching this Lizzie! You need to do more talks, you're an impressive speaker.
I love this talk!! Thank you, Lizzie🧡
Amen to this 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️
Thank you all very much
Lots of good gems in this!!
I’m in tears!
thank you.
Speaking of feeling good instead of looking good is way better, feeling good that is…I found out I had scoliosis after I was hurt on the job picking up something way to heavy with another woman when it should of been 2 men. Anyway I had no operation like everyone thought I should, and now 32 years later I still look bad with a huge bow on the left side of my back but I feel good only because I made myself the last 6 years start to exercise and get my strength back and went back to work! I’d rather look bad and feel good than look good and feel bad!! 🌹
An INCREDIBLE lady. Wow!
Hi Lizzie. Congratulations. I loved your TED. You inspired me. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with te world...and with me. Be safe. Keep enjoying live :) 🙏🌻
Amazing ❤ thank you
❤❤❤ so good Lizzie!!
thank you, lizzie! i see a lot of discourses about to see literally everything holistically now but this. it's very eye-opening and a reminder for us all
Amazing, extremely moving speech! Would love to read books by her
such an important talk and absolutely love the way it was presented! super interesting to listen to her 🤩
Thanks… helpful… I’ve been struggling with an autoimmune disease and feeling like it’s my fault for not having the willpower to eat less inflammatory, exercise, sleep more etc but the truth is I had two babies in three years, have moved houses across the country, and changed jobs several times and all in lots of hardship. I bet my autoimmune disease is absolutely from stress, lack of sleep, inflammation… but life ebbs and flows… I’m hopefully my best version of wellness is now and always in just letting things be. I love health and wellness and it’s part of who I am so it’ll balance at some point I’m sure.
Great talk 😊, thank you ! ✨
Thanks for these helpful insights.wellness is key
Such an inspiring Talk!!
So great talk just love it ❣️
Love this!!!
I absolutely love this talk! So glad I came across it. Thank you for being so positive, straight forward, and honest.
A really great Ted talk.
I love the title of this talk. Though I haven't listened to it yet.
Very inspiring ❤
your body tells you what you need
Yeah, that's why people who are on drugs stay on drugs.
It is interesting to watch this video few days after I watched a different one about how sport can cure mental illness. There is also listening to your body and (not) listening to your mind. Some people struggle to distinguish these two, me included sometimes. I think exercising is very important and very helpful and there is nothing wrong with it being a major part of your life. If my mind tells me "I don't feel like doing it today" I ignore it, cause my brain has tendency to 1. be lazy 2. overthink. However, if my body tells me (through physical symptoms) "I'm tired and need rest" - I listen. I fully agree about being compassionate though. Toward yourself and others. If you or someone else decides to eat pizza instead of some lentil veggie bowl for dinner, don't beat yourself up/judge. We need balance, we need rest from 'perfection', or we need sth bad to remind us how good feels like.
I've watched that video about how sport can cure mental illness, too! That's why I'm amazed at this video. It made me think more about the relation between sport and mental health.
Loved it!!
Awesome! Got a lot of good info out of this video 💖
Really enjoyed this Love from South Africa x
wow needed this
I love you, Lizzy.
Thanks for this video. It’s so helpful ❤️❤️❤️ absolutely amazing speech
I enjoyed your talk about "entire well-being!" I love your quote at the end by Nayyirah Waheed!
Yessss, Lizzie!!! This is amazing!
Thank you!
9:45 "How you feel is way more important than how you look."❤
Beautiful, amazing, just what I needed, thank you 🙏
Amazing Lizzie!!! 🙌🏻❤️
Thank you friend!!!
Don't should all over yourself ;) She is only the second person i have heard say this. I adopted it now for fifteen years when i heard it from the first. Very powerful mindset to not cave into the violence of "should".
The Last Part was the best part…more of that!
Love it
Ohh, can I relate to that experience! Lost my mom too, she was in her mid 70’s but I was literally rt by her side when she took her very last breath too. I felt like I was watching her in a horror movie the way her eyes looked & her mouth wide open. This creeped me out! I’m the youngest in the family as well. Now I’m in my 60’s! Yikes. It’s really hard to believe that I’m at that age/stage. Re: health that’s something I need help with.
Great video!! Thank you much 😊 🙏 unconditional love to all ❤️♾️🌌 (btw, too many commercials in between)
very good information.
Really really great! Having knowledge of the puritanical roots of this country helps deconstruct some of these strange cultural traits!
agree
Chicken this guy's channel out was the best part of my day
*Just to make one thing clear* : you can get all the nutrients you need from a plant-based diet, in fact vegans have less nutrient deficiencies than omnivores in general (a fact). Many athletes have actually went vegan in recent years because it has many advantages and makes recovery from training faster. Some of the best ultrarunners and triathlonists in the world are vegan, for example. She makes it sound like something was wrong with the vegan diet, when the problem was her own ignorance. Veganism isn't just a diet, but a whole lifestyle which aims to reduce the amount of suffering caused to animals as much as possible and practicable. When you actually do your research and eat well, everyone wins. The animals, your health and our planet. ❤ 8+ years vegan here ✌🌍
I was just about to write something similar. Vegan life is a commitment to compassion (for the Earth & its beautiful living creatures). Not a diet. Thanks for your comment
These videos remind me of my schools autorium back in the mid to late 2010s.
How you feel is way more important than how you look. 👌
When she asked who had their houses renovated and was like ''everyone right?'', I was like no... I'd love to have a house that I could renovate🥲
yes, it says I am out of shape.
Listen to you're own and especially other's
STOP WORRYING I'M ALWAYS WELL
When she tells about who definition of healthy she lies, because it is considering physical and emotional well-being. So she just think she knows some secret and she reveal it to us. Well, it's not like that. Simply telling: she says that she was depressed because she focused merely on results, not her, she wasn't fully present in her body, that backfired adres some accident, when she had no choice, but to get herself together.
This is basically my profession. Occupational Therapy....
This is right...
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2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
Lizzie is telling us what society has drummed into our heads and she's right. But you have to realize your a miracle! That's right a miracle: you started with 2 cells and now your 37 trillion cells, amazing! But in really all you really know is what society, and your brain and eyes tell you when you look in the mirror. So, what's the answer? Curiosity and enlightenment. Go on the web and start looking and understanding how God made you a miracle, and as your curiosity drives you to learn more and more you will marvel at the miracle you are, and your brain and body will go hand in hand as you understand your a 10. But curiosity and diligence is the only way to uncover the truth about how miraculous you are. Good luck, think positive and be happy as you enjoy your adventure as you become an explorer and discover the true you.
Implement the pie chart the Carter or rights 3.14 infinite the pie crust denotes the earth's crust ♥️ 😋
If you weren’t nourishing your body, that can hardly be blamed on a vegan diet. That’s lack of preparation or education, but not the diet.
Not to mention vegan isn't a diet. It's a lifestyle of compassion
Yes, she probably only ate plant-based, and did not know what vegan truly meant. Inspiring talk but felt a bit annoyed at this part.
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Please point out when at any point this speaker blamed her veganism (or plant-based diet) for why she felt so poorly? The entire video is focused on there being an amalgamation of factors that contribute to health and overall wellness…
Health? Hmm 🤔 wonder exactly what that truly means & how does that really feel? 🤷♀️
She's just talking things that we already know, just put in different words.
I'm NOT READY HONEY Honestly I GOT issues
I like TOO PLAY THE FIELD cuz MARRIAGE seems so Prejudice I'm NOT PREJUDICE AT ALL LIFE Is CRAZY now Adays
Most of our body is hydrogel...muscles, brain, etc.. very interesting
My body is owned by Krispy Kream... time to change it all.
To share one's vulnerability takes strength. Depression will take down some journeys... been there. Brough tears listening to her talking about the no bathing, change of clothing, etc ... those 'shouldas', 'couldas', 'wouldas' ............................... SMH rabbit holes
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She is not standing on carpet and criss-crossing legs ,why ? Her body saying that!
My body says I hate you. Every day. So I hate myselfm