Slow Down Cowboy!
Well let’s just say it like it is, our society glamorizes the go go go lifestyle. I grew up priding myself on having a busy schedule, doing 47 things at once & being “good” at all of them. Sound familiar? I love competition and the feelings I get from achieving something.
Over the past 2 years since graduating from college I have been on a healing journey. Which was sparked by having debilitating gut issues and hormonal acne from mold poisoning. These symptoms forced me to change my lifestyle and my relationship with myself. My entire world has shifted through this process of returning to myself.
My lifestyle has transformed over the past 2 years. I stopped running my body into the ground. I used to wake up at 4am, to rush to the gym, to rush back home to sit at my laptop and work a job that was making me depressed.
I stopped restricting myself with how I ate, stopped saving my calories for 8 tequila shots on Friday night. I stopped. This journey has been isolating, lonely, emotional BUT it has also been joyful, transformative, healing, faithful, peaceful and slow. I had to slow myself down, to let my brain know that my body was safe and then I physically started to heal.
“Health is not a goal, it is a lifestyle. Nourish your mind body & soul.”
And one day… I woke up and my entire life had changed. How? Because I made different choices. Choices that got me further and further away from the constant self destruction. Every small change adds up. They compile together and then sooner than later… you have a new life.
This was not easy and I am still navigating this journey but I feel like a completely different person. I am a completely different person.
A quote that has led me through my journey “wherever you go, there you are”. Loving myself and accepting myself exactly as I am, it is a constant work in progress but self love is the answer.
I now spend my time intentionally doing hobbies that I enjoy. Trying new coffee shops, walks in nature, working with clients to help transform their lives, creating new recipes in the kitchen, choosing mock tails, reading books to keep learning, instructing at a Pilates studio I love, launching my own business, spending time with my family and growing my faith with God.
I no longer live for escapism. I have built a life I love that I no longer feel the need to run from. AND YOU CAN TOO!! Sometimes you have to slow down… to deal with what is going on. Acknowledge the emotions & change your life.
Connect with me today to begin your transformation.