Some of us more so than others.
I used to contemplate suicide regularly.
I felt like I had nothing in my life to work towards.
I felt hopeless.
However, this spark of desire for more was there. I was too hard-headed to quit on myself. I knew there was an opposite to the pain I was feeling.
I knew there was SOMETHING out there for me.
So I decided to actively search for it.
While there can be various stressors that can contribute to anxiousness, one large factor that played a part was my physical health.
I wasn’t healthy.
I didn’t eat any nutritious foods.
I had poor sleep hygiene.
I didn’t engage in any sort of physical activity.
But once I introduced physical activity into my life, things changed.
Pushing myself towards physical activity helped with my depression and anxiety, and I wanted to reveal to you what helped.
So let’s talk about exercise and how it became a powerful tool to help me conquer my anxiety!
In my gym, I would find that I gravitated towards people on the same journey as me.
I would find that many of them were battling similar demons like I was.
I wasn’t alone.
Fast forward to years later, I know some AMAZING people into fitness and they have truly helped me get through some really rough times.
Community is an essential part of living an active lifestyle, and it’s something I really want to help you all with.
So here are a few strategies I recommend doing for building relationships and being a part of a community that supports your goals.
Let’s dive in!
Do you HATE exercise?
I used to when I started my fitness journey.
The thought of me running or lifting weights made me shudder.
Especially more so when dealing with depression and anxiety, where everything just feels so much worse.
But consistent exercise in small spurts made me find that there was a hormetic response to it.
This meant that over time, this pain began to feel more pleasurable.
And as time progressed, I was hooked.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a happiness routine that gets me super excited to get out of bed in the morning.
For a time, I wasn’t really ecstatic about waking up in the morning.
As I write about managing depression and anxiety with a more active lifestyle, not being focused on being happy was me not practicing what I preach.
So I got to work on a happiness routine to not focus on OPTIMIZING my day, but making my day something I can look forward to — even if it makes me 1% happier.
100 days of being 1% happier is being 100% happier in 90 days. ;)
This Happiness Routine is a “treat yo’self” type of routine, which has really made me excited about my day, which has allowed me to give that energy to others in my life — whether it’s my family, my relationship, my business, and my other job.
Let me share it with you.
These past few weeks, I have been having so much going on in my life that I am figuring out how to manage wisely.
For a time, I quit my full-time job to figure out how to run the active lifestyle brand I’ve been building.
Once I figured that out, I jumped into a job as a personal trainer to fill in the downtime, get paid, and create content that will benefit both my clients and the people in my brand.
I work a lot as a result, but I love helping people on their health & fitness journeys.
However, my nutrition has been getting sloppy.
I’ve been eating like crap, which has impacted my health dramatically in a variety of ways — but I’ve noticed my own mental health and wellbeing get negatively impacted the past couple of weeks.
So in this post, we are going to go over 4 nutrition tips you can use to help with mental health.
