An important realization that I have come to as I have navigated my recovery over the years has been the realization that I must define health on my own terms. We are constantly messaged the newest “health” trends and diets and supplements and forms of exercise that we are made to believe determine our worth. I have come to understand that health for a woman in recovery from eating and exercise issues means that I have to constantly ignore and challenge what I am being told “healthy” is. I have to create a version of health that allows me whole body and mind wellness. Often this means it is a different version than what those around me subscribe to. Recovery demands this.
As a woman who battled exercise addiction—healthy for me is not the newest workout created to torch calories and change my natural figure. Health for me is yoga or hiking when my body asks for it. There is no schedule that these things must happen on and it is healthy for me to not move my body in a punitive or obsessive way. If I am tired, I rest. If I feel energized I find a way to move my body that celebrates the body I was born with.
As a woman who battled anorexia it is important for me to not cut out foods, or follow the newest food trend (diet), which seems to change with the lunar cycle. Health for me is eating a variety of foods, eating what my body asks for and not allowing foods to have power of me by being classified as good or bad. Food is medicine and food is fuel. Food is fun and not something to hate or fear.
I invite you to reclaim health. Know that health on your terms is revolutionary because it is throwing out the idea that you have to conform to some ever-changing lie of what you “should” do. It means that you are taking care of your body by giving your body what it needs and wants. It means that you move your body in a way that feels good.
Health on my terms has become something that I feel proud of. When people start talking diet talk around me, or talking about the latest exercise fad they are doing—I can speak up and let those around me know that there is another way to exist and be in relationship with your self. Loving your body means unlearning what you may have heard over and over again and creating a new version for health that works for you.
I hope that you will allow this idea in and allow it to redefine the way you view and experience your version of health in the future…
As a woman who battled exercise addiction—healthy for me is not the newest workout created to torch calories and change my natural figure. Health for me is yoga or hiking when my body asks for it. There is no schedule that these things must happen on and it is healthy for me to not move my body in a punitive or obsessive way. If I am tired, I rest. If I feel energized I find a way to move my body that celebrates the body I was born with.
As a woman who battled anorexia it is important for me to not cut out foods, or follow the newest food trend (diet), which seems to change with the lunar cycle. Health for me is eating a variety of foods, eating what my body asks for and not allowing foods to have power of me by being classified as good or bad. Food is medicine and food is fuel. Food is fun and not something to hate or fear.
I invite you to reclaim health. Know that health on your terms is revolutionary because it is throwing out the idea that you have to conform to some ever-changing lie of what you “should” do. It means that you are taking care of your body by giving your body what it needs and wants. It means that you move your body in a way that feels good.
Health on my terms has become something that I feel proud of. When people start talking diet talk around me, or talking about the latest exercise fad they are doing—I can speak up and let those around me know that there is another way to exist and be in relationship with your self. Loving your body means unlearning what you may have heard over and over again and creating a new version for health that works for you.
I hope that you will allow this idea in and allow it to redefine the way you view and experience your version of health in the future…