Yesterday, I posted a poll in my Instagram story asking if anyone else struggles with their relationship between exercise 🏃🏼 and body image. 100% of people voted yes.

Wow. I can’t say I’m surprised, which makes me super sad for the state of our world 🌎 and society.

Can we just take today to focus on to loving ourselves, our bodies, and wherever we are in our journey?

Give yourself a hug!

Art by @agathesorlet 💕

Let’s talk anxiety. I believe anxiety in part comes from our attachment to believing everything we think is true. Just because a thought feels true doesn’t make it true.

The average person thinks between 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day. In the moment, our thinking seems logical, but when we start looking more critically at the content of our thoughts, we notice thinking errors- therapists call these cognitive distortions. We tend to believe many of our thoughts- but we are not our thoughts.

I love this idea: “You are the consciousness (the ocean) from which your thoughts (the waves) arise.”

Here’s your goal:

1) Be the observer. Listen to your thoughts without judgement! Practice mindfulness.

2) Train your brain. Say goodbye to thoughts your don’t like. Decrease your attachment that your feelings are true! 

For more help with anxiety, contact me!