Episode 87: Listening to Your Body and Letting Yourself Off the Hook with Matt Sorensen

About this episode

Emma Lagerlow interviews Matt Sorensen about the importance of listening to your body and the deeper connections between physical health and mental wellbeing.

Have you ever felt like your body is trying to tell you something… but you’re too busy pushing through to actually listen? Or maybe you’ve been doing all the “right” things - exercising, eating well, showing up - yet something still feels off. In this episode of It’s a Mindset, I’m joined by Matthew Sorensen - a specialist in corrective exercise, strength and conditioning, manual therapy, counselling and lifestyle coaching, who takes a deeply integrative approach to health, performance and wellbeing. Matt designs personalised programs that support resilience, injury prevention and sustainable health, and his work goes far beyond the physical. With a background spanning nutrition, strength and conditioning, and advanced manual therapies, he brings a unique lens to understanding the body - not just as something to fix, but something to listen to. Matt and I actually met around 20 years ago at the gym, and it’s been intriguing to see how our paths have evolved in a similar direction - both of us becoming more curious about what really makes people tick, beyond the surface. In this conversation, we explore the deeper connection between body, mind and behaviour, and how so often what…

People in this episode

Host: Emma Lagerlow

Guest: Matt Sorensen

Topics covered

• body awareness
• health
• mind-body connection
• corrective exercise
• sustainable health

Keywords

• body
• health
• mind
• exercise
• wellbeing
• nutrition
• performance

Mentioned in this episode

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