meet your coach - carley remsburger
Quick facts
I am a NASM certified personal trainer and have completed both Trauma-informed Weightlifting’s Foundations course, as well as The Center for Healings Trauma-Informed Coaching certificate! Currently acquiring my Barbell Rehab Certification.
I have worked as a pre-school teacher and kid’s gymnastics coach! My psychology degree was specialized in early-childhood and adolescent development!
I am proudly 2.5 years sober from alcohol.
I live with my beautiful wife and our two cats, Cheddar and Skylar.
I played volleyball all throughout middle and high school, competed in Track during high school, and have always enjoyed yoga!
I’m apart of the powerlifting team Relentless Strength and have competed at the NY Ladies of Iron 2024!
My hobbies outside of lifting include playing guitar and piano, hiking, and exploring or going on adventures with my wife!
As a trauma-informed trainer, I also aim to be inclusive and strive to create an open space for all in my practice. I’m hoping to host events in the future elevating unheard voices in the fitness world either virtually or in and around the Hudson Valley! (If you’d be interested in being apart of something like that, please reach out!)
MY WHY.
I became a trauma-informed coach for a very specific reason. I live with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), and the many uncomfortable or downright painful symptoms of it. My story is not unique. I am someone who lived through bad experiences that many do. But how I processed those experiences, how I handled those traumatic events, is what made me unique and who I am today.
The experience of C-PTSD is different for every single individual. The responses are different, the origins are different, the way we process is ALWAYS different. The commonalities that individuals with C-PTSD can find comfort in is that you must learn to move through, to keep living, and to heal our nervous systems and minds. I’ve found that my calling in life is to help others do that- to move through, to live… to heal.
In the past, before I was diagnosed and had a grasp on what was even wrong to begin with, I coped in majorly unhealthy ways. I was addicted to alcohol and substances, and generally to anything that would shut my mind off. Shutting my mind off for years and years felt like the only way to handle and avoid processing the traumatic experiences I’d endured. It was in sobriety that I found my true strength, and powerlifting.
While fitness in general is healing- and we can find movement that is trauma-informed and specific to you- powerlifting gave me something no other modality ever could. Overcoming a lack of confidence, and lifting weight you never thought you could lift, helped change my outlook. The physical act of pushing weight up with your legs, of pushing hard with your chest and arms, of pulling twice your bodyweight up off the ground- it creates a sensation within us, and activates our nervous system in ways that can absolutely help us re-regulate, and HEAL from our trauma. Resistance training is GROUNDING, and one of the best possible things you can do for a deregulated and traumatized body.
I overcame so much with fitness. I use movement and powerlifting to cope with my symptoms, to alleviate the pain, and to learn more about myself. It’s helped me create powerful tools and resources within MYSELF, that can be accessed and used whenever I need them.
It’s my dream to help you find that peace too.
