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You know, for the longest time, wellness was a finish line I was trying to cross.

It was a box that I was trying to check. It was a box that I was trying to check. It was a status that I was

trying to achieve. I wanted to pursue wellness, accomplish it, and live happily ever after.

Intellectually, I understood that it was not finite. Like once you get it, you have it forever,

you're done. But I suspended that awareness of what I knew to be true

time and time again. I suspended my knowing every time I purchased somebody's program or tried out

their shortcut to wellness. Buying someone's program or following their protocol or taking their

supplement is not inherently bad,

of course, but my intentions were misconstrued. I thought if I could just cut out sugar,

or maybe I needed a high, fat, low carb, or maybe I needed more protein. Or maybe I need more intense

exercise, but in shorter intervals. Or maybe my adrenals are so fatigued I need

less intensity and maybe more yoga and shouldn't I meditate can I be capital W well if I don't

meditate I wanted what I saw other people had and and this is the thing I kept trying to fix myself in order to have it.

Can you relate to this at any point in your life? In my opinion, this confusion is extremely

understandable and very detrimental. When we look at wellness as a tier that we strive to achieve

or qualify for, we not only end up with a lot of excess baggage

that we pick up like trying to get there, but we entirely miss the point and can end up farther

from the goal than ever. I had so many experiments and I tried out so many behaviors trying to create

wellness. Again, that is not inherently bad. But for me, it was like I was trying to

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