How to Start Choosing to Give Yourself Health 🌿

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Uh oh, it’s December - the time of automatic “giving.”

Are you madly making shopping lists, brainstorming perfect gift ideas, and pouring your focus into gift-giving?

Are you feeling the preemptive stress of navigating families’ and friends’ expectations for where you should be “giving” your time during the Xmas season?

This party, that party, this Xmas drinks invitation, that restaurant occasion, etc. All good things!

In the heat of all the stress to “give” during the Xmas and New Year period, we tend to forget the life-changing gift of giving ourselves the gift of health and self-care we each deserve. It can be easy to overlook what we need to do in order to stay healthy, energetic, and present in our life for not just the immediate Xmas season but also for beyond.

But you cannot give from an empty vessel.

Fill your vessel up with health, joy, respect, and happiness, so much so that it spills over to others!! Give yourself the opportunity to say “Yes,” to taking the critical time needed to stay healthy and take care of yourself. When that happens, it cannot help but spill out! This kind of giving is so infectious and so effective — but it can’t happen until you give yourself the gifts of health, joy, respect, and happiness first.

Schedule time to take a breath, the time to take a walk, enjoy a “Fire & Chill” class, or a Nutrition Optimisation Consultation.

Don’t wait until the first of the year to make a resolution. Say “Yes” to making healthy choices and taking one small step at a time now — without the pressure of perfection that a New Years’ resolution usually carries and START NOW.

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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