Exercising my Demons to become a healthier more confident me.

Its true to say that we all probably have our demons. How do we overcome these? Well in my experience it is not so easy. I suppose the way forward is to not try to overcome but to live with and recognise those times when the demons emerge and know how to deal with.

My past way of coping with anxiety and stress in my life was to fix fix fix. Try to find a solution as quickly as possible. The solutions would be trying anything and everything to make myself feel better... acupuncture, cupping, sports massage, walking, peloton, gym membership, yoga, setting myself fitness goals, doing meal plans, journaling etc etc etc - exhausting just reading it, never mind living like this. I believed that I was a failure for putting on weight. I felt like a shadow of my old self, I was putting on weight every week instead of losing even though I was training 3 or 4 times a week. Why and how could this not be working? ... More and more pressure. I was looking for solutions everywhere except the place the answers lie.... in myself.

I have therefore now adopted a new approach of slowing down, realising that not all things needed to be fixed because I am not broken! That my solution of fix fix fix would only add to the pressure I was putting myself under. So now is the time to press the reset button, take the pressure off and make some small changes each and every week. Baby steps..

Come with me on the journey that starts here....

Week One....