Nurture & Nourish anna@annaandersoninc.com

Anna speaks with Master Level coach and kindred spirit Holly Toronto. Holly works to reunite women with a sense of love, respect and ownership of their own bodies. She shows women they have inner value, completely separate from society’s beauty norms, and the emphasis placed on appearance, and teaches them to believe in that inner value on a deep level. She and Anna discuss the fascinating, sometimes enraging connection between how women restrict and limit themselves, and the history of how women have been vilified for taking up space, and sharing knowledge.
In this episode:
How we can move away from seeing our value as linked to our physical appearanceWhat nature and nurture mean for our self-worthWhy Holly calls refers to her own body a ‘her’ rather than an ‘it’, and gets her clients to do the same thingWhat Intuitive Eating is and why restrictive eating always backfiresHow we can rebuild trust in our bodiesWhat ‘compliant woman programming’ isThe five signs or manifestations that you’re a ‘compliant woman’For more conversations on a healing and nurturing approach to life and self-nourishment, subscribe to the Nurture and Nourish podcast with Anna Anderson.

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More about Holly Toronto
Holly Toronto is a Certified Master Level Coach who has 5 years of experience helping women stop prioritizing other people’s expectations of beauty, belief or behavior so that they can live their life from a place of Wholeness, fully aligned with the truth of who they are.
She uses an intuitive and spiritual approach that is constantly guiding her clients back to themselves, helping them fall in love with their own, unique and powerful voice, build partnership with their wise and beautiful bodies and embody a spirituality that guides and directs the bold lives they desire to live.
Quotes from this episode:
On self-evaluation
It's like we're trained to relate to our bodies as a separate thing. It's almost like we are moving through the world as the eyes that are watching us, versus actually seeing out of our own eyes.
On respecting our bodies
So like, let's stop calling our bodies vehicles, vessels, temples – this objectifying machine-y type language – and actually talk about our bodies as the human beings that they are 
Quote from The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
Links and resources:
Free Body Gratitude Meditation: https://hollytorontocoaching.lpages.co/body-gratitude-meditation/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143221746427796
Website: www.hollytoronto.com

In this episode Anna shares a heartfelt and illuminating conversation with inspiring coach Sedruola N Maruska. They talk about Sedie’s incredible work speaking and working with organisations who are authentically striving to address racism and social injustice. Sedie’s own journey stems from difficult experiences – the cancer recovery that triggered her move into more meaningful work. She found herself reconnecting with an event much earlier in her life, a deep loss that she trained herself to bury beneath guilt and shame.
In this episode:
‘It didn’t come to kill me’ – how Sedie was driven to take action by her illnessThe moment in her training when she learned her decades-old grief was a huge part of her storyAnna’s own drive to address and educate herself on racism, and fears about missteppingHow to have a constructive conversation about addressing inequalityWhat action to address social justice means on an individual levelFor more conversations on a healing and nurturing approach to life and self-nourishment, subscribe to the Nurture and Nourish podcast with Anna Anderson.

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More about Sedruloa Maruska
Sedruola Maruska is a speaker, business consultant and personal discovery coach on a mission to help businesses cultivate cultures of equity and inclusion that lead to social justice and more diversity. She’s the host of the Diversity Dish podcast where she talks to guest about their lived experiences with social and racial inequities. Shes also the founder of the Discovery Den group where she coaches individuals, and entrepreneurs on social justice issues. 
Sedruola is a second-generation Haitian-American who prides herself on having an amazing extended family and being a citizen of the world born in Queens, New York
Quotes from this episode:
On authentically seeking social justice:
A lot of people spend time pontificating, but not communicating. We think the thoughts; we put them out there; but we don't really feel open to the ideas that may challenge those thoughts, ideas and feelings... or what we've internalized along our journey.

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A lot is changing, but what I want is for us to become complacent. So, okay, great, we're all talking about it. But what are we doing about it? 
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​​People have sometimes the best of intentions, but when someone pushes back ...they feel like someone is saying that they're not a good person. But that person is saying, that's not what I need right now. What I need right now is this.
Links and resources:
Sedruola’s website: http://sedruolamaruska.com/discovery-dates
Sedruola’s instagram and Facebook:
http://instagram.com/sedruola
http://facebook.com/sedruolamaruska
Sedruola’s Patreon page:
http://patreon.com/sedruolamaruska

Anna speaks with Elliot Rae, speaker, writer and founder of MFF, MusicFootballFatherhood which has been called the ‘dad’s version of mumsnet. After a traumatic experience following his daughter’s birth, Elliot suffered PTSD and found he was forced to confront unspoken issues around fatherhood, masculinity and mental health. He’s now created spaces for other dads to explore their own conditioning and find more helpful ways of dealing with difficult emotions and experiences, in a way that supports families and society as a whole.

In this episode:
Anna and Elliot talk parenting from a new dad’s perspective, especially when the birth and its aftermath have been traumaticThey discuss how far we’ve come in being able to talk about dad's mental health since Elliot’s experience in 2016They talk redefining masculinity in a way that supports both men and women betterFor more conversations on a healing and nurturing approach to life and self-nourishment, subscribe to the Nurture and Nourish podcast with Anna Anderson.

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More about Elliot Rae
Elliott founded MFF after suffering from PTSD after the traumatic birth of his daughter. Elliott is one of the UK’s most prominent speakers and writers on topics around fatherhood, masculinity, mental health, equal parenting and gender equality and he regularly hosts webinars and workshops with organisations about how they can support working dads and create a family friendly workplace. He has held senior D&I leadership roles, most recently as Head of D&I delivery at HM Treasury and the United Nations recognised Elliott’s work and he is now the proud recipient of the UN Women UK’s #HeForShe ‘Changemaker of the Year’ award. 
Elliott’s first book, entitled ‘DAD: untold stories of fatherhood, love, mental health and masculinity’ is a deeply moving and inspiring collection of 20 stories that represent the diversity of modern fatherhood and seeks to start a conversation that challenges the traditions associated with masculinity. DAD was published on Tuesday 1st June and is an Amazon Top 10 bestseller.
Quotes from this episode:
On his orgnisation, MFF:
We represent dads who want to be engaged fathers who are very aware of their role as dads and the society they're living in now. Who wants to raise children to be socially conscious, who are socially conscious themselves
On the unspoken challenges of new fatherhood:
I would start with trying to understand that they are also going through a massive life change...just yesterday I was talking to someone about a friend who was really struggling as a new dad ...At home, he would get on with it. And he was fine. But he would cry on the drive to work every day... I think ultimately, it's about being patient with each other.
Links and resources:
Elliot’s website & further information on his book, Dad: 
www.musicfootballfatherhood.com