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Hi, I’m Robyn Conley Downs

I’m a speaker, educator, entrepreneur, and author of The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness By Creating Small Shifts That Create Big Change. Using simple, science-backed strategies, I’m here to help you cut through the clutter to uncover the small shifts that will make huge change in your life. Less striving. More ease. It’s time to feel good.

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Robyn Conley Downs is a speaker, educator, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author of The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness By Creating Small Shifts That Create Big Change. Holding a Master’s degree in education with an emphasis in behavior change, and 4 years of public policy & health change at the doctoral level, her work taps into cutting edge science around psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and habits. Recently named one of the Most Influential Women in Wellness, she believes that small shifts in thinking and action create big change in life. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Andrew, and their daughter Elle.

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Most Influential Women in Wellness

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod: The Feel Good Effect with Robyn Conley Downs

The Balanced Life Podcast: Redefining Wellness On Your Own Terms

Party in My Plants: Wellness Whistleblowing! How to Strive Less & Ease More

One Part Podcast: Negativity Bias, Decision Fatigue & The Dark Side of Wellness

Once Upon a Food Story: How to Create More Calm, Clarity and Joy

Camille Styles: Stuck in The Comparison Spiral? This Simple Practice Can Help You Reframe Your Thoughts

Publishers Weekly: Serenity Now: Health & Wellness Books 2020

You’re Not Getting Any Younger Podcast: Big Change Starts with Simple Shifts

I Am All This: Better Habits Now

Brand Yourself: How to Get Over the Fear of Being Seen

Fit Mama Podcast: How to Cultivate Healthy Habits

This or Something Better: Reclaiming Your Wellness

Health & Humanity Podcast: Small Habits That Can Change Your Life

You are Infinitely Loved Podcast: Ending Perfectionism and Feeling Good

Once Upon a Food Story Podcast: The Simple (and Gentle) Approach to Feeling Good

Whiskey & Work Podcast: How to Stop Over-Thinking & Start Doing: The Psychology Behind Gentle Wellness

Party in My Plants Podcast: What if Gentle was Cooler Then Perfect? And Meal Planning Was Sexy?

Minimalist Moms Podcast: Creating Daily Wellness Routines

A Couple Cooks Podcast: Mindset Matters

Goal Digger with Jenna Kutcher: Creating a Legacy Online

B is for Better Health Podcast: Building a Morning Routine with Robyn Conley Downs

The Creative Imposter Podcast: How to Flip the Wellness Script

Healthy at Any Size Podcasts: Healthy Living in the Real World

The Full Plate Podcast: Tackling Your Mindset & Your Kitchen

The Balanced Life: Simplified Wellness, Self-Care & Letting Go of Perfection

She Reaches Podcast: Feeling Good & Making Time for Wellness

Erica Ballard Health: Tackling Your Mindset

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KATU Afternoon Live

KATU Afternoon Live

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Sharing a few fav local Portland finds in this yea

<img src="https://realfoodwholelife.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="Sharing a few fav local Portland finds in this year’s feel good gift guide! *Tag your fav small business in the comments below* and find the guide by going to the link in my profile or https://realfoodwholelife.com/whole-life/feel-good-holiday-gift-guide/ Some of my favorite small biz deals and discounts happening right now: ✨ Use code ROBYN25 for 25% off all @primallypure orders over $50 through Cyber Monday. ✨ Free shipping @bookshop_org all weekend. ✨Use code robyn20 for $20 off any @thebalancedlife membership.">

It’s time to feel good!!! ✨I've teamed up with

It’s time to feel good!!! ✨I've teamed up with my publisher to giveaway 25 (!) copies of The Feel Good Effect. Here’s what you need to do: tag a friend who you think will love the book + then head to bit.ly/fgesweeps to enter. Winners will be notified November 16th. Good luck, and here's to feeling good!
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No purchase necessary, enter between November 7th, 2020 and November 14th, 2020. Open to US residents, 18 and older.

<img src="https://realfoodwholelife.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="It’s time to feel good!!! ✨I've teamed up with my publisher to giveaway 25 (!) copies of The Feel Good Effect. Here’s what you need to do: tag a friend who you think will love the book + then head to bit.ly/fgesweeps to enter. Winners will be notified November 16th. Good luck, and here's to feeling good! . . No purchase necessary, enter between November 7th, 2020 and November 14th, 2020. Open to US residents, 18 and older.">

Lower the bar. #gentleisthenewperfect

Lower the bar. #gentleisthenewperfect

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What it's really like to launch a book during a pa

What it's really like to launch a book during a pandemic...

The Feel Good Effect has been out for one month (yay!!!) and the question I’ve been getting most often in interviews—prior to actually recording—is: how’s the launch going? And I’m always like: Well... It’s just really.... Weird. Like most things in covid-world, right? Nothing like you’d planned or expected.

In truth, I was really looking forward to meeting you all, to celebrating this mission + message together, and to seeing the book in some of my favorite bookstores. Plus there’s the fact in that the last month our beautiful city been evacuated and blanketed in smoke and protests, and friends have lost homes, and I’m like: Wait, did I even write a book or was that just a dream?

So yeah, weird. But also. Perhaps the most needed and necessary time. Look, I have no confusion about how dark this time is. But I also know that this book provides some light. A reframing and reclaiming. A ditching of what doesn’t matter and centering on what’s good.

Sure, I should definitely fire myself as my own hype-person and social media manager (she who has posted about her own book exactly twice since it came out), but really, I’m not going anywhere. This book is here, and it’s here for you, and you know what? We’re only just getting started. Here’s to feeling good. xxoo #thefeelgoodeffect

<img src="https://realfoodwholelife.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="What it's really like to launch a book during a pandemic... The Feel Good Effect has been out for one month (yay!!!) and the question I’ve been getting most often in interviews—prior to actually recording—is: how’s the launch going? And I’m always like: Well... It’s just really.... Weird. Like most things in covid-world, right? Nothing like you’d planned or expected. In truth, I was really looking forward to meeting you all, to celebrating this mission + message together, and to seeing the book in some of my favorite bookstores. Plus there’s the fact in that the last month our beautiful city been evacuated and blanketed in smoke and protests, and friends have lost homes, and I’m like: Wait, did I even write a book or was that just a dream? So yeah, weird. But also. Perhaps the most needed and necessary time. Look, I have no confusion about how dark this time is. But I also know that this book provides some light. A reframing and reclaiming. A ditching of what doesn’t matter and centering on what’s good. Sure, I should definitely fire myself as my own hype-person and social media manager (she who has posted about her own book exactly twice since it came out), but really, I’m not going anywhere. This book is here, and it’s here for you, and you know what? We’re only just getting started. Here’s to feeling good. xxoo #thefeelgoodeffect">

You Belong. ✨ I had the absolute pleasure of int

<img src="https://realfoodwholelife.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="You Belong. ✨ I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing self-described nerdy black immigrant tomboy Buddhist weirdo @sebeneselassie for the most recent episode of the #feelgoodeffectpodcast about her new book, You Belong. In the interview we explore ideas about belonging, why she says belonging is an expression of life, belonging and social change, the difference between belonging and fitting in, spiritual bypassing, and our separateness. This is such a juicy, relevant, joyful conversation and I hope you tune in! Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, just search "Feel Good Effect" or read the show notes on realfoodwholelife.com link's in profile. Also, do yourself a favor and grab a copy of this life-changing book now. I've already purchased 5 copies to give as gifts. Swipe right to save + share her quotes and let us know if you tune in!">

You may not know this but... First up, I’m so g

You may not know this but...

First up, I’m so glad you’re here! If you don’t already know, hi, I'm Robyn. I'm a 6-foot-tall mama of an almost-third-grader, Elle; married 18 years (as of last month) to the love of my life + research partner, Andrew. I spent many years researching and teaching in academics, 🤓 and I still feel supremely, awkwardly out of place here on Instagram. 👋

I can't wear white clothing because when I do, I spill on myself immediately. Who are people who can wear white? Are you one of them? Tell me your secrets. I'm 40, which is old by wellness industry standards, but young by my standards. I host a podcast, 🎙 where I love to ask the question: what does it really mean to be healthy?

Over the years I've had anxiety, multiple miscarriages, infertility, secondary infertility, an autoimmune disease, and endometriosis, which I had surgery for last year. Despite all of this, I am still a whole.

I wrote a book called The Feel Good Effect. 📚 It came out yesterday. I haven't seen it in a store yet because most of the bookstores near us are closed, 😭 but virtually seeing you get your copies makes my heart full ❤️. I believe that wellness is for everyone and that mental and emotional wellbeing are fundamental to health. My motto is “gentle is the new perfect” and I am so, so glad you're here.

Now, tell me something about YOU!

<img src="https://realfoodwholelife.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="You may not know this but... First up, I’m so glad you’re here! If you don’t already know, hi, I'm Robyn. I'm a 6-foot-tall mama of an almost-third-grader, Elle; married 18 years (as of last month) to the love of my life + research partner, Andrew. I spent many years researching and teaching in academics, 🤓 and I still feel supremely, awkwardly out of place here on Instagram. 👋 I can't wear white clothing because when I do, I spill on myself immediately. Who are people who can wear white? Are you one of them? Tell me your secrets. I'm 40, which is old by wellness industry standards, but young by my standards. I host a podcast, 🎙 where I love to ask the question: what does it really mean to be healthy? Over the years I've had anxiety, multiple miscarriages, infertility, secondary infertility, an autoimmune disease, and endometriosis, which I had surgery for last year. Despite all of this, I am still a whole. I wrote a book called The Feel Good Effect. 📚 It came out yesterday. I haven't seen it in a store yet because most of the bookstores near us are closed, 😭 but virtually seeing you get your copies makes my heart full ❤️. I believe that wellness is for everyone and that mental and emotional wellbeing are fundamental to health. My motto is “gentle is the new perfect” and I am so, so glad you're here. Now, tell me something about YOU!">

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