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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

Essentially You with Dr. Maria Mariza: 5-Minute Wellness Routines to Feel Good Now

Real Talk with Dana: The Problem with All-Or-Nothing Thinking

barre3 Magazine: Ready to Ditch Perfectionism? Read This

Vibrant Happy Women: Gentle is the New Perfect with Robyn Downs

The Sonya Looney Show: How to Make Better Decisions and Routines

Get Wellthy: Reclaim Your Joy with Self-Compassion and Intention Practices

Relationship Ready Podcast: Small Shifts Create Big Change

Surviving Sara: How to Create Change

Your Simply Big Life: Embracing the Feel Good Mindset

Ever Forward Radio: Behavioral Change and Mindset Shifts to Feel Better

The Hidden Why: The Feel Good Effect with Robyn Downs

SLP Happy Hour: A Framework for Small Shifts that Lead to Big Change

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

barre3magazine: Your Go-To Guide for Keeping a Consistent Workout Routine

Publishers Weekly: Serenity Now: Health & Wellness Books 2020

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

Live Well Anyway: The Feel Good Effect with Robyn Conley Downs

IGNTD Podcast: How to Actually Create Lasting Change

You Need a Budget: Budgeting with Self-Care with Robyn Conley Downs

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

Minimalist Moms Podcast: How to Go From Should to Good

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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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

You Belong. ✨ I had the absolute pleasure of int

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!

The Feel Good Effect is out today! I hope it bring

The Feel Good Effect is out today! I hope it brings you more calm, clarity, and joy today; and allows you to find more ease in your every day. Here’s to feeling good. ✨ #thefeelgoodeffect

How do you want to feel? ✨ The Feel Good Effect

How do you want to feel? ✨

The Feel Good Effect is out tomorrow and I’m just sitting in gratitude for the strong, powerful, generous women who lent their words in support of this book including @lalahdelia @drshaunashapiro and @simplyrealhealth whose words I’ve shared here. Now tell me: how *do* you want to feel? Free? Calm? Clear? Share below!

pssssst: There's still time to claim the pre-order bonus bundle before it disappears tomorrow! Just head to realfoodwholelife.com/book to enter your order details and the bundle will be delivered straight to your inbox.

WE DON'T WANT YOUR ANTI-WELLNESS BOOK... Actual r

WE DON'T WANT YOUR ANTI-WELLNESS BOOK...

Actual rejection I received in the final stages of trying to get my book published. Okaaaay. Here's the thing—my book, The Feel Good Effect (OUT TUESDAY!)—is about shall shifts that create big change. It's about harnessing the power of mindset and habits to feel good in your life right now, about leaning out of of impossible standards + empowering yourself with mindset & habit strategies to create more calm, clarity and joy in your life right now. Now you tell me: what exactly about this is anti-wellness?

I think that rejection really meant that he didn't want a book that wasn’t a prescriptive plan, and that he’d rather publish a thinly-disguised diet book instead. This is feedback I've gotten frequently over the years. Feedback that people only really want a diet, that they don't want habits and mindset backed by research, that they’re really only looking for a quick fix. 🤷‍♀️

All along, though, I’ve believed that you are ready for so much more. That you actually want to feel good now *and* to find a more sustainable, joyful way to well. That you’re tired of exploitative marketing, and are hungry for something different. Tomorrow, September 1st, I will proudly share my oh-so-very-wellness book with the world, knowing that every single one of *your* orders is a vote. A vote for another way, a reclaiming of wellness, that's for us, and about us. And for that I cannot wait. Now, who's with me? Here's to feeling good. #thefeelgoodeffect

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