Coach Alyssa Chang

01/18/2023

https://youtu.be/kXT_Or7MJbQ

From figure competitor to struggling with metabolic damage to a healing my body with neuroscience.

Here's a sneak peak of the adaptations I made to help my body move out of starvation mode.

Please feel free to visit www.coachalyssachang.com/better-expert to learn more about Better Expert, my 6-month brain based group coaching program designed around the road blocks I encountered while healing.

From figure competitor to struggling with metabolic damage to a healing my body with neuroscience.This week, I’ll be sharing more about my own healing journe...

05/16/2020

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I wanted to pop in share a couple of cool online summits I will be a featured guest expert on.

1. Choose Yourself Summit (5 days, over 30 experts). https://www.ashleybeaudin.com/summit?via=alyssa

2.Women's Online Health Summit (22 Expert interviews dropped to you daily for 22 days!).
https://lauracharelle.lpages.co/womens-health-summit/?utm_source=alyssachanghealthsummit

I will be speaking on my background in neuroscience and it's connection to body trust, self compassion and finally feeling on the same team as your body.
I can't wait to see you there!

Hey there, I'm Ash! I am an inspirational speaker, mentor and movement leader dedicated to empowering creative women to bring their gifts to the world with confidence.

04/08/2020

Diets Have Actually Failed You

I spent way too many years blaming myself for the lack of adherence to diets.

But what I didn’t know then, is what I feel so necessary to share with you today.

A brain based perspective on why diets have failed you.

Diets don’t bend when life is flexible (ie. traveling and enjoying cultural foods). Diets don’t encourage us to honor how we feel and pivot.

And diets often implement rules that end up hardwiring us to become more obsessive about food.

The more we restrict, the more we desire.

Your brain is always made the right call for your safety.

Your body has always known what was best for your immunity.

She has always been intuitive.

If you're looking for a program that teaches you how to refine your intuition, and replace feelings like guilt around food, so you can free up mental space and no longer be burdened by the weight of food obsessive or body image thoughts, I’d like to invite you to apply to my 12 week Brain Based Online Group Coaching Program, Better Expert.

www.coachalyssachang.com/apply

04/03/2020

Pretty grateful to be apart of this panel of intelligent and passionate women in the health industry.

It's a FREE webinar, but only first 100 seats, so please sign up quickly if you're interested in joinign!

03/28/2020

I wanted to share with you my top 3 brain based drills to help ease anxiety and give you strategies to reconnect with your mind and body.

I've been having many conversations around feelings of overwhelm and anxiety, I hope you know you're not alone and that we all are figuring life out one day at a time.

By activating these specific firing patterns of our brain, we are provided the scientific solutions of how to finally work with our body instead of against her .

If you’re looking for a program that teaches you how to resolve the fight with your body and instead encourages you to learn her at the most transformational level, the brain, I’d like to invite you to apply to my 12 week online brain based group coaching program, Better Expert.

www.coachalyssachang.com/apply

03/22/2020

A quick win for you to feel reconnected and grounded in your body.

This gentle drill offers your eyes some TLC. It's called "palming" and is one of the most effective ways to help get us out of fight or flight.

Please save this for the next time you need that quick win:)

03/21/2020

About a year ago, I created a "Self Care Guidebook". I wanted to craft something that wasn't specifically talking about getting massages or baths, but highlighted some of the deeper areas of self care like how to express gratitude or establish boundaries.

I'd invite you to download this free resource here: https://www.coachalyssachang.com/resources/self-care-guidebook

In the comments below, please let me know how I can best support you.

03/17/2020

I would like to invite you to join me on Instagram Live, where I've managed to rally a bunch of leading health professionals (Lily Nicole, Missy Bunch, Taylor Gage and Wholly Healed) to join me in a candid conversation from the comfort of our homes to talk all things that can help support you during this time.

If you're hanging at home and would enjoy some company to help you find your footing and reground, please join me this week on Instagram . Looking forward to seeing you there!

03/11/2020

I sprained this ankle at a volleyball tryout when I was 15.

I came down from the net only to land on the opponent's foot.

I grew up an athlete, surrounded by a message where pain was seen as weakness, and subsequently out of necessity I developed the survival response of ignoring it in order to be perceived as strong and essentially to fit in.

However, I realized I was not the exception.

This reflex we have to ignore pain, may come from years of associating pain with weakness.

And soon it becomes hardwired as “a way of life” for us.

But what if we altered our perception of pain and could interrupt the way we normalize it?

Leaving space for safety, stillness and compassion.

In order for many of us to change the way we relate to our bodies, we may first need to understand the role of discomfort/pain.

Neurologically, pain is our brain’s way of telling us to STOP and address something.

It is the most influential behavior change tool we have built into us.

For instance, the times you find yourself achy, sick and glued to the couch.

That is your brain feeling unsafe, interrupting the intense workout pattern and forcing a day(s) of stillness.

So pain (within reason), is your brain asking you to push pause and to alter a behavior that risks your safety.

Our brain is hardwired to keep us alive and it is constantly taking inventory of behaviors that risk our level of safety (ex. Too much exercise, too intense forms of exercise, not enough food, lack of sleep, high stress working environment etc).

So, what is the bigger picture your brain is trying to communicate with your headaches, anxiousness, GI distress, lower back pain?

Please join me in my stories as I elaborate on the concept of pain.