Episode 25: Starting At The Top - The Brain Based Approach with Gina Kappes

Episode 25: Starting at the top - the brain based approach with Gina Kappes

Today’s episode is with Gina Kappes. Gina is a performance coach in Germany. She studied a Bachelor Arts of Sports Management and Marketing.

Gina is the owner of G.R.I.T athletics. Gina has grit! And GRIT stands for growth, resilience, intensity and tenacity which is exactly how I would describe her! She is one of the most passionate, driven and resilient humans I know.

She talks about how she suffered burnout at 23 which lead her to end up in hospital with kidney failure.

This lead her to find ‘the brain based approach’. She studied with Z-health, and now works with a diverse group of people to help them find their physical potential through a brain-based approach.

In this episodes we talk about:

x The Brain first Approach and how we are our brains. If our brain is receiving an input that it feels is unsafe, then it won’t give you a good output, or it will give you an output that will limit you.

x Pain and pain science

x How to make the brain feel safe by balancing the nervous system

x How to activate the vagus nerve and why that’s important

x How to cultivate more emotional stability

And a whole lot more!

Gina says “Stagnation is a bad thing, our bodies are not made to stagnate, our bodies are made to grow”

I really enjoyed this conversation.

You can connect with Gina at @g.r.i.t_athletics

Z-health zhealtheducation.com

“The brain that changes itself” and “The brains way of healing itself” by Norman Doidge, M.D. https://www.amazon.ca/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers/dp/0143113100 https://www.amazon.ca/Brains-Way-Healing-Discoveries-Neuroplasticity/dp/067002550X

GRIT TED talk by Angela Duckworth https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance?language=en

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