When I decided to kick sugar, get rid of gluten and become a happier more positive person, I assumed that it would take a few weeks, maybe a month for me to be vibrant, glowing and (most importantly to me at that time) thin.
After a few months, I was frustrated and uninspired. I was drinking green smoothies, meditating, walking every day and I still didn’t feel like I was at my ‘best’. I was doing everything right and I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted and it was damn annoying. I decided there must have been something I was doing wrong. Maybe I’m not organic enough? Maybe I’m having too much sugar from fruit? Maybe my gut is leaky? Maybe my chakras aren’t aligned? Maybe I’m carrying twin dragonflies in my uterus that are stealing my inner glow for their trip back to the motherland?
I felt like a petulant child. I WANT IT NOW. Mentally throwing tantrums and flailing my arms and legs around as though I had just dropped my ice cream cone.
I would go to my journals and write about my frustrations. Telling the pages how incredibly annoyed I was with life. Asking it why I wasn’t loosing MORE weight and how come my eyelashes weren’t super long and thick like every other ‘health guru’ in the universe.
It wasn’t until I flipped back in my journal and read what life was like a mere few months prior that I realised how harsh I was being on myself. I had actually come really far in a small amount of time, but I was pushing these boulder sized expectations on myself and punishing my will power for not meeting them in unrealistic time frames.
Despite the fact that I was physically healthier than I had ever been, I didn’t feel it. Which brought me to the realisation that health isn’t just physical, it’s mental and emotional also.
Instead of focusing on how amazing I was going, meditating daily and throwing junk food out of my life, I was focusing on how much better I COULD be. I was idolising people who had been on these journeys for years and telling myself I wasn’t good enough because I wasn’t where they were in their health yet. I wasn’t grateful for where I had brought myself.
So I want you to ask yourself, right now, are you honouring how far you’ve come in your wellness journey? Or are you ignoring your progress?
Be grateful for the lessons you’ve already learned and the fact that you still have somewhere to go. How boring would it be if we were all perfect? We wouldn’t have anything to learn, no areas to grow and develop and we would just sit in our perfect glory wondering what to do next. That’s not a life I want to live in.
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