Wellness is one of the major topics I write about; it’s a big part of my story.
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.
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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
![#thankfulthursday
Finding joy and awe in the mundane, “ordinary”, day-to-day life.
I believe that is partly perspective - it is knowing the character and ways of God, and then choosing to see life with different eyes; ones that reveal the beauty and blessings in the “everyday”.
I’m learning, however, that there is also a need for intentionality. To purposely set our minds to dwell on God and remember His character, works and ways. To purposely live a life that continually confronts awe so that we don’t forget wonder.
In her latest “Hope is Here” mini devotional called “If Ever I Forget” - used here in my joy journal - @kristina.proffitt reminds us that we can unintentionally forget God and our need for Him in the busyness and in the mundane. He, however, does not forget us but faithfully reawakens us and invites us back to Himself. His grace to His people - now that is truly awesome!
”Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered”
[1 Chronicles 16:8-12]
🎶 In The Name of Jesus
~ JWLKRS Worship, Maverick City Music
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