How July has been for you? I’m hoping it has been good and filled with so much health.
For me, a change of hair color, new glasses, and my Self-Regulation Coaching Certification. This certification means a lot. Personally, it helped me reframe my knowledge in mind-body work and stress relief. And most importantly, it shapes my work as a holistic health coach and deepens the support I offer inside my coaching program.
I know firsthand how difficult can be to incorporate healthy habits to our lives when most of our time is spent handling responsibilities. No matter if it’s family or work, there’s always something going on. We keep living without even realizing that we’re always worried, stressed, or anxious about something, that it feels that we’re grasping for some happiness wherever we can find it.
Maybe you set goals for yourself. Maybe you decided to start going to the gym or blocking time in your calendar for you or your family. Maybe you said to yourself that this is the year that you’ll lose that weight, or that you’ll eat better, or just take some time off.
Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything right, only to fall off track a week later? I’ve seen myself and others close to me, setting goals, only to fall off track or just not keeping up with them.
And the sad truth is that, even when we don’t want to admit it, we’ve been conditioned to think that we’re struggling with discipline. So we tend to assume that our problem is lack of motivation, or time, or willpower. The real truth is that our body isn’t the problem. Our body is the one waving the red flag.
Over the years I’ve learned that is the nervous system the first to respond. It’s not the mind, as some may say. It’s the nervous system. That’s no small thing. That’s huge.
When your nervous system doesn’t feel safe, even the healthiest habits can start to feel like a threat. It’s no wonder why, when you have your health goals set up, something comes up and you just don’t do it. You skip the workout. Or hit snooze. Or lose your appetite or eat mindlessly.
The worst part? We tend to blame ourselves for “not being consistent.” I know I have.
The problem? Taking on self-blame also pushes the nervous system under more stress, more pressure. Over time, your nervous system ends up maxed out living in survival mode. And health, no matter how well-intentioned, becomes one more demand.
But have you ever wondered if discipline actually is not the problem?
What if creating safety is part of the formula to habits that can actually hold?
Living a healthy lifestyle should be the way we move through life. It’s what supports us from illness and disease. It’s also the recovery from illness and disease. It’s what lets us keep moving forward stronger than ever when life happens.
Having a healthy lifestyle is how I recovered quickly from a surgery I went through in 2019. It’s how I keep showing up to what matters the most to me. It’s why I’m embracing that I turned 50 this November.
You don’t have to settle for less when it comes to your health. You deserve all the health in the world. And I know that sometimes it’s not accessible as it should be, but there’s always a better way.
You don’t have to start out “fixing” your habits. This is why start with the body underneath them. Our body is one beautiful system that thrives when everything is in sync. But for that to happen we have to meet our body where it is.
We work on rebuilding health frameworks that should respond to your real life, not an ideal schedule. We do this with nutrition that supports regulation. Recovery that builds capacity. Movement that honors your stress state, not ignores it. Because habits don’t hold without a body that can hold them. And the body can’t hold them when it’s bracing for impact every day.
This is how we build health that sustains —not collapses. It’s how I help you break stress cycles and reclaim energy, so you can get your body back on track to renewed health.
To your rhythm and health,
