What is the value of slowly building your own toolkit?
1. The body has an innate ability and desire to heal. Giving it some kindness and grace overtime gives the body the nudges it needs. Support your body like you would your own team, family, friends, etc.
2. Slowly adopting new “bite-sized” lifestyle changes will allow for steady, sustainable growth. Rather than diving straight into rigidity and restriction that often leads to a sense of failure, find ways to incrementally add new behaviors. This is a marathon, not a sprint, maybe even a more realistic 5K. Take it slow so that these lifestyle changes don’t feel so daunting.
3. More diversity of interventions leads to greater resilience (ie: helping your body expand its team so that it can stay nimble and flexible to handle any incoming problems). It’s not all about food, or all about exercise, but a blend of all the modifiable lifestyle factors.
4. It gives you the opportunity to self-reflect – what is working well? What doesn’t serve you? Learning how to understand and communicate with your body is a skill and a gift – it also helps with behavior change (we’ll talk more about the plasticity of the brain in future posts – but it’s pretty amazing! ✨) Moving through these changes helps to solidify and reinforce your “why”.
5. It also encourages you to trust the process. While we might all wish there was a “quick fix,” we also want long-lasting results. There is not one perfect diet, supplement, or exercise that miraculously works for everyone…and that’s okay.
Your body is both your greatest teacher and student. 💕Listen and teach it well.
