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#38 Celeste Rains-Turk NPC Bikini: how to develop a healthier relationship with food & body, importance of identity, danger of autopilot, managing the festive season!

December 16, 2020 • Robyn Challands / Celeste Rains-Turk • Season 1

This week’s guest is the wonderful Celeste Rains-Turk who you may recognise as the host of Confessions of a Bikini Pro podcast.

As well as being an NPC bikini competitor, Celeste is a mindset mentor specialising in helping people make peace with food, their body and their goals and is the author of the number one best selling self help book ‘Believe Your Way to Badass.’ Combining her passion for the sport, her experiences with disordered eating plus her qualifications and passion for psychology, personal development, mindfulness, Celeste works closely with competitors to help them develop healthier relationships with food.

In this episode, we dig into a bit more about what that entails, some tips and tricks and we answer a LOAD of listener questions too. Competitors of ALL levels will get so much out of this episode!

We spoke about:⁠

Her current prep
Why she started her podcast
Celeste’s competing history
Taking a long time off between shows to build her body and repair her mindset
Getting her period back
Battling with how we identify and speak to our selves
How and why Celeste got into the work that she does helping people repair their relationship with food and their bodies
Common struggles for competitors (change, post show, food focus)
Differences in pros/amateurs, age differences
Writing a best selling book - ‘Believe Your Way to Badass’
Listener Q&As!!
- How do I stop binging post show/shoot?
- What protocol to implement post show to not fall into the binge/restrict cycle
- How do you break from the all or nothing mentality?
- How to find the line between reversing and getting your life back?
- How to improve body image & self love/acceptance, while always working to change your body?
- Common mistakes you see athletes make post show
- Tips to manage the festive season (especially while in prep)

And SOOO much more!⁠

If you want to follow Celeste, learn more about her journey and her food relationship coaching services you can do so at https://www.instagram.com/celestial_fit/ and http://www.celestial.fit. You can check out her podcast on Apple, Spotify and wherever you like to listen to your podcasts!

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Until next time…⁠

Love you!⁠

R x