Ahhh, I am bursting with joy to be back!! I have a new website AND new re-brand that I am so excited to be sharing with you all! Okay - I will cool it on the exclamation points from here on out, just know I am really happy to be writing this!!
At the end of December, I wasn't doing too well mentally. Seasonal Depression around the holidays is a weird one - you can feel both happy and sad at the same time but don't really know how that works, but it does. Anyways, after many therapy and coaching sessions, I realized that my relationship with food and my body had gotten out of control. The ADHD medication I take suppresses my appetite so, I just stopped eating.
FUN FACT - when you don't eat your body signals to your mind that it is starving and you will eat anything and everything with little to no control due to the fact your brain is under the assumption that it is starving. With New Year's around the corner, I was NOT ready at all for peak "Diet Culture Season" as I like to call it. Everywhere, you look during the first few weeks of every year, it seems like everyone wants to lose weight and I made the choice that that wasn't going to be me this year! (Shout out to the podcast - Maintenance Phase that got me through January)
I set my New Year's Resolution to be "have no goals in 2023" which has been incredible, to say the least. I will be writing more about this one so stay tuned! Anyways, this resolution led me to sign up for both a group and course to help escape "diet culture season" because to be honest, I was afraid that I would fall into the trap of feeling the need to lose weight for my wedding this summer. The group has been focused on how I can love myself in a larger body which is led by an eating disorder clinic. The other is a dietitian lead course that teaches intuitive eating for humans with ADHD. I survived January because of these two groups! I have a few more weeks of both and I am astonished at how much I am learning about myself. I went into January thinking I am going to hate this month but ended up having an amazing month where I gained a whole lot of love and trust for myself!
I also started working with an Aryvedic coach, Cara who is so many wonderful things - I could do a whole post on her and the things she has taught me in the few sessions we have had together! Learning how to eat food that nourishes me and balances me out based off of my dosha (my specialized type) has helped me gain a whole lot of love for my body. Look into Aryveda if interested - it has been fascinating to learn about and has played a big role in healing my relationship with food as well!
My last two big updates... YES, there is more! I am currently in both a Human Design Course and ADHD Coaching Program! Human Design is fascinating to me and I have started to incorporate it into my coaching practice, but wanted to take a course to truly learn how to read charts more accurately and be able to help my clients further understand who they are and how they can create a life that fits their design more confidently! As for the ADHD Coaching Program - I will have a whole blog on this coming soon BUT, I am currently being trained by Leanne at ADHD Works on how to be an ADHD coach! Almost all the clients that I have coached to date have had ADHD and I too have ADHD so I cannot wait to add more tools to my coaching toolbox that I can use on both myself and my clients to better serve them.
To add to my busy busy January - I spent 2 weeks in Florida soaking in some sun! I miss my sunrise walks each morning on the beach with my hot water - AMAZING way to start your day!
To wrap this all up, this is why I can't set goals for myself - even without goals I find myself doing a lot of things but things that make me so happy and fulfilled. No shocker but my 2 core values are Growth & Impact and well... all of these are helping me grow and allowing me to enhance my impact so it makes sense why I am feeling what I am feeling. My ADHD brain is also having a blast with all these exciting things I get to learn, do, and consume but I will not lie, it does get exhausting hence why I took a little break from blogging! I am looking forward to sharing my blog posts again with you all. I hope you enjoy the re-brand/new website (I did it all myself, thanks to my ADHD brain)! Until next week, cheers!
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