Having the health and energy to create our vision of our best life really is mission-critical. If we do not have our health, we have nothing. Speaking as someone who comprehensively lost my health through a period of complete adrenal burnout, I can testify to this! I had the love of my life, a great job, good money, a nice house, but I couldn't enjoy any of it. That whole episode of my life was driven by, in retrospect, a crazy decision to rarely prioritise my body or my health. I want to make sure you have a much better foundation for happiness, so in this section we are going to look at body image, health choices and wellbeing as the basis for a truly happy life lived to the full.
Take a moment right now to pause. Check in with your body. How well are you taking care of it? How well are you listening to its messages to move, refuel and rest? When was the last time you treated your body to a massage or a rest?
And how do you feel about your body? Do you love it? Are you ashamed of it? How do you talk to it? Like the enemy or a treasured pet? Do you tell it off for being too old? Too tired? Too fat? Too slow?
We have only one body and it will see us through the entirety of our life. Your body is where you experience pleasure and joy. It carries you through your day. It bears your children. As I have written before, it is the moving temple of the soul.
