We all have our own version of what health looks like to us, and I believe that we all have core pillars of health – our foundations that are true for us. I also believe that we have a lot of similarities in our pillars but how we choose to implement them can be different.
It’s easier to change our outside world, than it is to change our inside world.
They’re all amazing thing, but when happiness is an inside job, they don’t cut the mustard if you’re looking for a joy that’s with you all the time.
Recently, I realised I’m rubbish at allowing my emotions to move through my body. I honestly thought I was good at it and then I had this ‘not so good’ emotion, that I pushed away, rather than letting it move through my body – whoops!
Is it the same for you?
Each day we have the opportunity to grow and learn. We can let others decide our path for us or we can choose to take responsibility for what we want to create and take action towards it. School taught us to follow direction, life taught us to follow our parents direction and we often continue down that path – in some form or other.
Who are you? It’s easy to explain what you do – I’m a Mum, Wife, Health Coach, and I can tell you what attributes I have – I work hard to achieve my goals, I’m kind, curious, I come from a place of love, I’m a good listener and I want you to live the best life you can.
But who are you? At our core, we’re a soul – that thing we know is there but we can’t see or touch. Much like anger, love, frustration, happiness – it’s something we know is there but we can’t see or touch it.
Our human bodies feel those emotions, and can act out in according to those emotions – smiling at someone, giving them a hug, crying, punching someone, but much like our soul we can’t physically see and touch it – we have to believe in it.
I like to call this my intuition guiding me and if I don’t follow I get a kick up the butt!
Often we’ll see or feel signs. Something will happen, you’ll see repeat patterns or events and for me more recently it was at a particular location.
I’ve been keen to eat organic vegetables for ages, and I’ve been, somewhat, all talk. I would go to the organic veggie section at my fruit & veg market, but they didn’t have everything I needed so I’d grab them from the non-organic section…99% of the shop.
Now I’m not being hard on myself, I’m being honest with you.
We know this acronym well but I always struggled with the last S – what about you? I let it slide for a while but something just wasn’t right. Calling myself or someone else ‘stupid’ didn’t make me feel good, so I stopped using the acronym until recently.
When we go on a journey, be it a relationship, weight loss, #selflove, working out, we put in a lot of effort. We turn up for ourselves every day and things that were important to us in the past, can lose their shine, so we let go.
Our journeys to self requires love, patience, kindness and through those things we create a sustainable approach to living. We find that when we create small habit changes, ones that come from love and are guided by our intuition, they anchor into us and we can continue to implement them – long after the decision is made.
The things that happen around us don’t matter so much any more, we see that when we let go of who we were, and we start to be come who we are, we want more – deeper conversations, deeper love, deeper self-respect, deeper alignment. We want to show up for ourselves more and more – regardless of what anyone else thinks.
When was the last time you made a big (or small) decision about your life?
When you made that decision what did you do to come to it? Did you:
I figured it out, I was listening to Shaunna Menard MD talk today and she said ‘if you want to change your life, you have to change your story’.