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The Secret Healthy People Aren’t Telling You
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We’ve been taught to reverse-engineer health, as if forcing ourselves to eat kale and hitting the gym three times a week will make us healthy. But true health doesn’t start on the plate or at the gym.
It begins in the mind.
When you know yourself really well and know how to attend to your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations - when you know your needs, live with purpose, and recognize what it truly means to feel well-nourished, and movement isn’t an obligation and doesn't require discipline. They’re the natural expressions of you being and doing. You reach for foods that energize you because you care about how you feel. You choose to move your body because it feels good to feel alive in it.
Health isn’t something you achieve through willpower or discipline - it’s what emerges when you’re free of the constraints that keep you from being your most authentic self. When you see through the old stories and live from clarity, the way you eat, move, and care for your body stops being a strategy and starts being a reflection of who you are. The work is not to control your choices with the hopes of achieving some outcome- it’s to become the person for whom well-being is inevitable. |
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I Met My Edge
On Sunday, July 28, I ran my first 10KTO race: from The Exhibition to the Scotiabank Arena and back. Somewhere between the start and the finish, I met my edge.
That moment, the one where your breath shortens, your legs feel like they’ll give way, and your mind offers you every reason to stop, used to mean, “This is the limit. This is as far as you can go. Wrap it up.”
But I saw it differently this time. My edge wasn’t a barrier. It was an invitation - an opening to rise above the familiar and meet the version of me that lives beyond it.
Each step past that point wasn’t about speed - it was about expansion. I realized how often in life we confuse the edge with the end, when in truth, it’s the doorway to the next chapter of who we are.
When I crossed the finish line, it wasn’t just 10 kilometres behind me - it was an old self left behind, and a new self who had met and conquered her edge.
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Quote Of The Issue
"The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life." - Hal Elrod
Moment Of Self-Reflection:
- Where in my life am I still waiting for someone or something else to change before I can move forward?
- What areas of my life am I subtly blaming on circumstances, other people, or my past?
- If I took full responsibility for my current situation, how would my choices change starting today?
- What truth about my role in my challenges am I avoiding?
- In what ways might taking ownership feel uncomfortable, but also deeply freeing?
- If I believed that my thoughts, beliefs, and actions shape everything I experience, what would I start doing differently right now?
- What would it look like to shift from "Why is this happening to me?" to "What can I create from here?"
- How might my life change if I approached every problem as a creative project instead of a personal injustice?
- What story about my limitations am I ready to rewrite?
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