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Bethany Rutter is an author and online personal trainer. She is the author of four books for young people and two books for adults. Her next novel is Ask Me Anything, out November 2025.
It was a joy to speak with Bethany - so refreshing to hear how she has come to be chill with the body she is in and how she has come from hating PE at school to enjoying movement.
We talked about
- Bethany's own body and movement story
- spinning, sweating and finding joy in movement
- how something that is apparently good for your body can be very stressful for your mind
- her books and how important their message is for young people (and, actually, people of all ages!)
- the importance of language when we discuss bodies and food
We highly recommend you check out Bethany's socials and read her books - maybe with a young person in your life - and DO Pre-order her latest book out in November here
Please reach out if you would like some support with your relationship to food OR movement. Ela currently has limited spaces for Intuitive Eating coaching and if you'd like to reconnect with movement, contact Christine.
AND if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write us a short review. It would honestly mean the world. Love to you all, Ela & Christine x
Chapters
1. Exercise Without Agenda. A Quietly Radical Approach with Author Bethany Rutter (00:00:00)
2. Intro to the podcast (00:02:11)
3. How Bethany's Young Adult Books Helped Me Get Back Into Reading (00:04:52)
4. Bethany's Journey With Movement (00:06:46)
5. Finding Movement That You Love (00:09:23)
6. The Love of Spinning (00:11:05)
7. Moving Without A Concrete Goal (00:14:51)
8. Finding Functional Movement for Life (00:17:13)
9. Strength Looks Different for Everyone (00:22:28)
10. The Importance of Fat Protagonists (00:28:39)
11. Bethany's Body Acceptance Journey (00:31:39)
12. Body Diversity Is Real (00:38:00)
13. Becoming 'Chill' With Your Body Image (00:40:27)
14. The Joy of Kettlebells (00:44:38)
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