I started a wellness journey in 2018 after hitting a low and realizing I needed to be more intentional about caring for myself. Since then, I’ve learned how to manage my emotional wellness and have grown spiritually in the process.

In July of 2021, I switched my focus to the physical component of wellness and started an 18-month journey to improve my health. This consists of monthly challenges designed to create healthy habits which will lead to a healthy lifestyle. This journey is still ongoing as there have been several roadblocks along the way, and I’ve taken a pause from writing about it.

In the first two posts below, I share the approach I’m taking, the plan for documenting the journey, my goals, and a bit of health history to put it all into perspective. The posts following those are the actual monthly challenges.

  • Physical wellness – the plan…

    In late March, I mentioned that I would be switching my wellness focus. After working on the spiritual and emotional aspects over the last two years, I’ve learned and grown a lot, and created healthy habits to maintain that part of my wellbeing. So, I have since switched my focus to the physical. I started…

  • Physical wellness goals and history

    As I mentioned last time, in my wellness plan, July is the first month of the 18-month journey I’m undertaking to restore my physical health. I’ll be working on monthly challenges to create healthy habits that will lead to a healthy lifestyle. The challenge for July was to drink more water. But before I get…

  • Physical wellness challenge 01: hydrate

    And so it begins… July kicked off my 18-month journey to better physical health. I’ll be working on monthly challenges to create healthy habits that will lead to a healthy lifestyle. In the previous post, I went into more detail about my initial goals and health history to clarify why I’m taking this approach. The…

  • Physical wellness challenge 02: fasting

    My 18-month journey to better physical health continued with another challenge in August. I’m working on monthly challenges to create healthy habits that will lead to a healthy lifestyle. ** The first challenge was to create a hydration habit and I worked on that in July. The second challenge was to incorporate forms of fasting…

  • Physical wellness challenge 03: sleep

    Sleep, oh blessed sleep. There’s just something about sinking into bed at the end of the day. Getting under the covers, stretching out, and letting out a deep, satisfying, sigh. Then being lulled by the warmth and coziness, causing your eyelids to grow heavy and close. Hello Slumberland, I’m on my way! Well, that is…

  • Physical wellness challenge 04: cleanse

    Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a great start. I’m a few months behind on posting about my monthly physical wellness challenges. But this one in particular seems like a good one to kickstart the new year. My 18-month journey to better physical health continued with another challenge in October. I’m…