Getting to the root of... health

​Dedicating time for progress in your mental health journey is quite frankly… optional. And gaining a better understanding to where your joy is sourced may not have been your top choice for a New Year's resolution. Your focus is perhaps on your weight, your pocketbook, or those recurring 'bad' habits that you aim to finally overcome. When we allow ourselves to take a step back, however, we see 👀 much of these things are deeply interconnected. 
 
Emotional eating. Retail therapy. Alcohol as the wind-down method.
 
Our experiences and choices do not arise in isolation. Holding extra weight is often a side-effect of deeper processes that deserve to be re-visited. And while counting calories and killing it at the gym are methods to work with the symptom of weight gain, it begs to be asked: Do these methods get to the root of the pattern and provide long-term staying power? We can use this same process of inquiry when it comes to unnecessary spending and the reach for alcohol. Is this a solution? Or a temporary resolve?

In health,
​Amy Rena Erickson