Building Rome

I had big plans to write about how this is a process and will take time to get to whole body wellness. That you will have good days and bad days. You will have times when you want to give up or think it is not working and want to give up. But it took a completely different turn, to the ups and down with my mental health. The basis of this is a process that still applies, though. Hopefully, what I share today will help you in some way. If you know someone that could benefit from this blog, please share. You can also follow me on socials to see more recipe ideas, workouts, updates, wellness, beauty, and everything wellness. Thank you for clicking here; I will quit rambling now so you can get to the deets. This is the wellness journal that I am sharing with all of you. I hope you enjoy the diversity of topics that will be covered.

After a rather rough day at my 9-5, I was ready to pack up my office and just quit. One of those days that is mentally draining and your brain and eyes hurt. It is hard to drive, think, and communicate and you just feel exhausted. I skipped dinner crawled into bed, and pondered what I should do.

I lay there with thoughts bouncing around like a kid in a bouncy house. Wondering how other entrepreneurs have done it? What do they have that I do not? Why does everything have to be so complicated? I filled my mind with all this jealousy and negative self-talk.

I would love to have a company where I just share all this excellent wellness information. A diverse company from this blog, a podcast, recipe books, and much more.

Where does all this negative self-talk get me? Nowhere. So I pulled out some tools from therapy to calm that negative self-talk. I began telling myself all my achievements thus far. I have excelled at my 9-5 over the last four years. I am progressing at an incredible pace in getting my bachelor's degree. I have raised one child going off to college this fall, and the other two I am still raising are respectful and helpful individuals. I have been married for 14 years, and the longer we are together, the stronger our relationship gets.

You can utilize this tool for yourself. When you have all those negative thoughts crawling, rushing, or pounding to get in, remind yourself of all the things you have accomplished already. You are unique in a multitude of ways. We put so much pressure on ourselves to go, go, go all the time. Go here, do this, be a fantastic mother, wife, friend, daughter, aunt, and coworker. We have to remind ourselves that everyone is on their own path. Just because Betty is 3 blocks farther down the road than you does not make you less than her. Maybe you had to stop to tie your shoe or recover from an injury. You are still moving, just at a different pace. You will get to where you are going eventually. We should not compare ourselves to each other; there is room for all of us in this world.

As individuals, we have things we like, love, activities we want to do, the music we prefer to listen to, and workouts we feel good doing. That does not mean we all need to like or do the same thing. You may like HIIT, where I like yoga. On a podcast I was listening to recently, the host stated, "there is room for everyone in this wellness space." There is room for the wellness knowledge that I have to share. I also strive to always learn more to grow and evolve over time.

Let's dive into one primary type of workout; for example, look at yoga. Yoga has such a wide range of practices. There is vinyasa, Hatha, Bikram, yin, and many more. Then within each practice, there are different styles. One teacher can have low lights or candles with soft music creating a calming sensation that relaxes you as you flow through your practice. Another can have the heat turned up and pumping music to release all the negativity from your body, filling you with energy and fulfillment. You have to find which one fits you.

What does this have to do with the process? Whole body wellness is a process from the inside out, top to bottom, and everything in between. Mental health is one I continuously struggle with. My negative self-talk and body dysmorphia have not been mastered by any means. One of those days where I needed to remind myself this is a process. A process of finding what works for you, what you like, and what will keep you coming back to be consistent with it. I have discovered and learned tools to help me through days like this.

I need to share the tools I have learned over the years. That doesn't mean I have all the confidence in the world that this will become the success I dream of. I still have that negative self-talk trying to creep in from time to time. As John Heywood said, "Rome was not built in one day, but they were laying bricks every hour." It is all a process. It will take time to build what I want and be where I want. In the meantime, I will continue laying those bricks till I get it all assembled.

The same goes for my wellness. I continue every day to lay bricks to build whole body wellness. There will be setbacks or days that are not the epitome of health, which is ok. Some days you have a fiber-fueled breakfast smoothie, loaded veggie salad, and salmon with rice for your day of meals, and other days you have almond butter toast with an apple for breakfast, for lunch; chicken on a bed of swiss chard with roasted golden beets, and Chinese take out for dinner.

I started this blog to share my journey. All the failures and successes with no filter and complete honesty. I am choosing this way as that is how I am and how I want to read or hear the content I am choosing to take in. I genuinely hope this is for you, but if it is not, that is ok. There are many other wellness blogs, podcasts, websites, and socials. I do hope that this helps someone out there.

I am 100% authentic in every way. I am not perfect and never will be. I do not promote fakeness and never will. Writing helps me to release my thoughts and feelings. I am passionate about wellness and have been for years. I feel this is my niche and am going for it. Hopefully, this will help you; if not, I hope you find a blog to help you.

This feels right to me and is what makes me happy. I also like gardening, canning, cooking, yoga, camping, beauty, fashion, classic cars, motorcycles, beach days, boat rides, natural medicine, reading, listening to podcasts, and writing. I do not fit into one box and never will. I love the diversity in every aspect of life. Variety to me is fun and exciting. It is incredible to learn about other cultures and customs. The amount of knowledge out there is so much more than we can even imagine.

Do not let what you think others will or won't like to hold you back. Go for it because we are a diverse world full of many differences. Someone out there will find your content helpful and consistently come back for more. Keep laying those bricks along the way, and you will reach your happy place in your time.

💖,

The Wellness Blondie

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