Abby Lamb Coaching

11/01/2024

Powerful creation. Link to full song:

Album · 2023 · 1 Song

15/12/2023

So much fun, teaching these young dancers about body neutrality last night! Look Less, See More. You are More Than a Body! Abby Hunter Lamb

14/11/2023

Un-diet your dance.

How do we reclaim body movement for enjoyment after diet culture trauma?

The objectification of women’s bodies in the fitness world co-opted all of our movement to be for the purpose of shrinking ourselves and losing weight. Thin ideal teaches us that thin bodies look beautiful when they dance with their lines and fat bodies are not. They go in the back.

In the dance world, diet culture tears you apart from being IN your body to looking AT your body. It feels unsafe.

No wonder we obsessed with and simultaneously hated exercise!

Realizing you are more than a body to be looked at gives you the liberation to move your body however the heck you want to.

It also includes not moving your body and resting.

You are also more than beautiful. You are more than your appearance. More than a body.

As I un-diet my movement, I realize I love to dance. To make it a safe space for myself, I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Recenter in my own body.

I set boundaries. This movement isn’t for someone else. I just get to move to the music and enjoy the sensation of being a human and feeling the vibration of the rhythm in my soul.

Reclaiming my body one dance at a time.

If you were to reclaim your movement, how would your body choose to move today?

Olé!

16/08/2023

“Chastity is a peaceful way of being in relationship to ourselves and others, not a list of don’ts.” -Dr Finlayson-Fife

For any parents and teachers teaching the law of Chasity this month, here’s a great lesson plan from Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife for healthy, integrated relationships with sexuality and spirituality!

https://www.finlayson-fife.com/blog/post/chastity-discussion-guide-teachers-and-parents?mc_cid=10c30c5a05&mc_eid=5471809f15

16/08/2023

“Chastity is a peaceful way of being in relationship to ourselves and others, not a list of don’ts.” -Dr Finlayson-Fife

For any parents and teachers teaching the law of Chasity this month, here’s a great lesson plan from Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife for healthy, integrated relationships with sexuality and spirituality!

Chastity The main goals of this lesson are to give Young Women: a way to value sexuality

19/12/2022

‘Tis the season to smash down Diet Culture!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-beyond-the-food/id1172102796?i=1000543051417

Thanks Stephanie Dodier!

‎Show Going Beyond the Food, Ep ‘Tis the Season (to smash down diet culture) with Unyime Oguta - Nov 25, 2021

19/12/2022

Sharing Stephanie’s Saying NO to diet culture’s “New Year, New You” click bait and saying YES to a year of creating!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-beyond-the-food/id1172102796?i=1000590269256

“Sister, I know the urge to buy into the “new year, new you” ideal is strong - but now, it’s time for you to be stronger.
Stronger than the diet culture that fills you with self-hatred and still leaves you feeling empty.
Stronger than the temptation to buy into the “fix me” frenzy of gym memberships, diet books, and green juice cleanses.
And stronger than the pervasive idea that you are somehow not enough.
In today’s episode, I’m going to offer you a revolutionized way of setting your 2023 resolutions.
What you’ll learn listening to this episode on how to make & keep Resolution:
• The history of goal setting
• The liberated goal-setting method I used to unlearn the socialization of diet culture and hustle culture
• An invitation to revolutionize your resolutions”

Thanks Stephanie Dodier!

‎Show Going Beyond the Food, Ep How to Make & Keep Resolutions - Dec 15, 2022

20/06/2022

It was never about the food or your body. There are bigger systems at play.

Diet Brain is a reflection of how diet culture has affected women’s brains over time.

It requires our thoughts until we believe our bodies are problems to be managed with food and exercise.

These four distinct thought errors create a lens that we see ourselves and others through.

A lens that makes our relationship with food a battle instead of a joy, our bodies the problem instead of our home, and makes us very afraid to put on weight.

Because we think it’s going to impact our lives negatively.

But if the problem was the weight- all “thin” people would be happy and confident. But it’s not the case. You’ve been there and you know it.

Any person in any body can create confidence. Because it’s created in the mind.

And is the problem wrong food and right food? Nope.

If it was, we’d all be “fixed.”

It’s about systems of thought to oppress. About moral superiority to “eat healthy.”

And it’s not about willpower. You aren’t broken.

You have everything you need within you today to begin the practice of intuitive eating and food freedom.

Its about trusting our biology. YOUR own body.

We can learn to work WITH our brain and body but we have to see the diet brain lens we view the world with first before we can remove it.

20/06/2022

Divine masculine. Divine feminine.

We all have both of these energies in us.

Our job is to respect it.

Yang and yin.

Doing and being.

Productivity and rest.

Me and we.

Both creating space for themselves and the other.

❤️Happy Father’s Day Peter Lamb

I honor you and am privileged to be on this journey of true intimacy, of knowing and being known, of choosing love, with you. As are our children.

16/06/2022

We have the illusion that when we just “eat healthy” or “eat better,” WE will be fixed. We will be happy and whole “there.”

That the doubts and insecurities involved with being human will go away once we “do” that.

The error is this:
You are not broken. You are human.

You cannot “eat better” your way out of your humanity.

You CAN learn to embrace it with compassion and curiosity.

Comparison in the form of “eating better” is hidden diet mentality.

It is the thief of joy and it’s an illusion.

There is no way of eating that is healthier than another.

There’s YOUR way that is best for YOU.

The way to eating CONFIDENTLY is self trust.

That YOU are the author and authority of your plan, body, sensations and emotions.

That is something already within your ability.

Self-Trust is a skill that you practice.

First step: Practice getting out of your head and into your body today.

Ask smart questions: What am I feeling right now?

What do I notice in my body?

Am I experiencing hunger? Is this what full feels like?

Where is there discomfort? Where is there comfort?

How’s my energy today?

Can I feel my breathing?

15/06/2022

This is the spin out of expecting other people to meet our basic needs.

You know who is the only person who knows what it’s like to be you?
You.

You are so good at being you. You are the best.

You can understand yourself better than anyone else ever could. That’s your job and privilege. Not anyone else’s.

Want to be seen? See yourself.

What do you wish people knew about you? Believe that about yourself.

You know what other people are good at?

Being themselves.

Let them be themselves. Your job is to love them. Not change them.

You never could change them or know what they felt. You only had the illusion of doing so.

That’s manipulation and it feels painful for YOU.

We’ll, if they’re not there to make me feel happy and meet my needs, why would I be in a relationship?

To practice being the kind of person who can love someone and who can become vulnerable as you share your own experience.

Be in a relationship wholeheartedly means no strings attached.

Expectations we have of others cause us pain.

This doesn’t mean don’t make requests. Make requests as much as you’d like.

But don’t expect people to meet them.

Expect that they have agency and it’s their choice, because it is.

Love because it feels good to love. Because that’s how you want to show up. Not because “they’ll appreciate it” or because “they’ll return the favor.”

15/06/2022

Bodies are amazing miracles, not ornaments.