Mar 28, 2022
In
episode 150 of Holistic
Health Radio I'm joined by Louisa Paterson, a retired
professional dancer and founder of
Train Like a
Ballerina.
Her passion is to help ballerinas and
ballet enthusiasts train smarter, not harder, perfect their
technique and learn from the worlds leading experts on proper
nutrition, strength and flexibility, mindset and
anatomy.
While she's a wealth of
information today and now lives a very balanced lifestyle, that
wasn't always the case. Away from family and unsure of
what to eat, combined with nutrition myths and fads perpetuated by
dance teachers, Louisa fell into a pattern of under
fuelling her body. It was only later through her own
education and distance away from the dance world that she realised
how disordered and toxic it can be.
This is an episode that will inspire you
and full you with hope, while also opening your eyes to how
insidious diet culture can be in the dance industry.
In this episode
Louisa exposes the dangers of diet culture in the dance world
including:
- How disordered
eating is normalised
- Common nutrition
myths perpetuated by dance teachers
- A snapshot of
what life was like as a professional dancer
- When she first
got her period and the negative meaning she attached to it because
of a dance class experience
- How easy it is
to get caught in the trap of "I'll be happy when..."
- The impact
underfuelling had on Louisa's mental health and
happiness
- What she did to
start fuelling her body correctly and repairing her relationship
with food
- Her experience
with the oral contraceptive pill and how she regained her period
once coming off of it
- The changes
Louisa hopes to create by injecting education into the dance world
through the Train Like A Ballerina App and Academy (coming
soon)
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