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Small choices can have a powerful impact on our wellbeing. Pausing before reacting, saying no without overexplaining, letting something be “good enough,” and choosing rest between challenges can help us step out of constant urgency and create a more sustainable way of living and achieving.
Understanding the stress–inflammation–mental health pathway is about recognizing that caring for your body - through sleep, movement, nutrition, and connection - is also a way of caring for your mind.
It’s been quite the year! I’m so proud of you. I’m so proud of the ups and downs you’ve endured and the lessons you took from each moment. I’m proud of you for resting and healing. I’m proud of you for dreaming so big you made yourself laugh with your audacity. I’m proud of you for taking smaller than small steps and staying consistent with the forward motion. I’m proud of you for being honest with yourself about your inner truth. I’m proud of you for having the courage to face letting go of what you know and finding ways to keep the good and let go of what no longer resonates. I’m proud of you for reconnecting to the things that matter to you but with a new found authenticity in this life chapter. I’m proud of you for taking the foundation of balance and progress and building on it. I’m proud of you for being proud of yourself.
I write this to one particular client I’ve worked with and I hope you know who you are. I see how this applies to all of us on the journey. Sometimes, on this journey, the things we can be proud of - we only see looking back.
Take your deep breathes, your deep rests, your deep introspections, your genuine care and respect for others that don’t consistently harm you, your new boundaries, your clear communication, your life mission statement….and savor the year to come.
I’m proud of you. I believe in you. I’m glad you are now beginning to feel it too.
Doesn’t it feel ironic that so often the very thing we are starving for is the very thing that freaks us out the most when we get closer to it?
