Hey, so over the years, I’ve competed on different levels of different things, whether it’s running halves or full marathons or fitness competitions, those agility races…what are those called…like the Spartan race and stuff…just different things. I love strength training, like really intense clobbering workouts.
Yeah, I don’t do that anymore. And it’s not really because I’m turning 50, I suppose age has a factor to it but part of that age factor is that my body is sore. A long, long time ago, I was in a car accident. I was pregnant with Joshua and he’s 23…so I was pregnant with him and as result of the whiplash and the shock and things, I was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia and that was like 1998?
And in all of its weirdness, I think I just said, no, no, I don’t think I’m going to take that diagnosis and they also suggested that I have no more children and I ended up having three more…I mean…talk about uhh. But let’s not talk about how wonderful that decision was but regardless, what brings on body pain is inflammation and inflammation can be triggered by a lot of different things.
For me it became huge about 8 years ago when my stress load was up and beyond and I was forced through my body to just stop and listen and just start taking care of it. And really loving it. And I stepped into this world of speaking to myself like I speak to my children, so I’d reference myself, and I’d get up in the morning and say, “Good morning Sweets!” And I would just practice speaking lovingly to myself.
My point of this video is that teaching yourself to take of yourself and not hard, hard, hard, go, go, go. And I love to run! I love a sweat. I love discipline and I love goals. I just don’t know if right now is the time for that? You can do whatever you want, whatever floats your boat, but I think most of us are going on this wave of up, down and around. One day I’m eating a bag of Nibs and the next day I’m having celery juice.
I don’t know. But I do know that this is a weird, weird place so I thought what can I kind of do and help myself stay in some sort of routine. So I’ve decided to create a three-week program that each day will have a goal and a conversation. There’ll be a fitness component to it, maybe a spiritual component, an inward component to it or a nothing component to it. There just might be those days that I say, “I’m just so done!” and all of the weirdness I say the corona (virus) is.
So whether you’re still working or whether you’re home with little ones or big ones or you’re home alone, wherever you’re at or wherever you are physically, mentally…it’s okay. It’s not a big go, go, go, it’s a nurturing thing. It’s a rejuvenation thing, it’s an open your mind to the possibilities of other ways of being healthy. Just healthy.
So we’ll talk a bit about food, we’ll talk a bit about shitty times. We’ll talk about hope, we’ll talk about grief, and we’ll move.
So, I look forward to seeing you on Monday.