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#168: We Can’t Prioritise Wellbeing While Inflicting Words of Punishment [Podcast]


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The language we often use around making better choices for our health and wellbeing. It might be eating wholesome foods, getting regular exercise, and a decent dose of regular creativity, we turn the best choices into the hardest ones.

Our world and our priorities are set up by the language we use. We cloak living better under the blanket of 'should' and engage in self-abuse as if it's the natural order. But what if it isn't? What if we've just been conditioned to believe that the lazy choice is the natural way?

In this episode of the podcast I explore this further and ask where this comes from and what steps we can take to make health the natural norm rather than a battle against what SEEMS natural (poor choices).

- It starts by shaking this mindset that somehow living in sync with our bodies and developing healthy habits and patterns are punishing and painful.
- It starts by recognising that our bodies WANT to be healthy. They WANT to move, they WANT to eat highly nutritious foods.

We can uncover a deep and satisfying enjoyment when we shake this mindset. It's time to reconsider the way we think of the right choices. Not as habits we simply should adopt, but as lifestyles that will help us to truly thrive and succeed as individuals and a collective.

What is your relationship like with notions of health and wellbeing? Do you equate eating well and exercising with punishment and eating bad food as being naughty? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please leave your response in the comments below.
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