How Slowing Down Helps Improve Your Wellness and Mental Health

When you are used to living in a fast-paced environment, and a society that judges people's performance and productivity based on how “busy” they are, it becomes easy to get caught up in the hype of the hustle and bustle. But like always, we have to pause and ask ourselves how well is my current pace serving me? Have a check-in with yourself every once in a while, and see if you are truly meeting your own wellness need and goals or simply pushing yourself through all the noise of the day to day. 

Creating and Executing Systems

We all have systems that we create for ourselves. Think about it, we create daily routines and rituals surrounding what our day to day looks like. What time we generally wake up and go to sleep. What time we generally eat. Our life and these systems tend to revolve around the type of work that we do, our children’s schedules if we have them, our romantic and personal relationships and other entities.

Vanity.

I had to decide, again in that moment. Is this what we are about to do E? Are we about to beat ourself up or change the narrative. I decided to tell myself, you know what it’s okay to be concerned (not worried) about how the final appearance and outcome of your legs will be. But for now, we are still healing. Let’s heal and then cross that bridge when we get there.