Living Healthy Lifestyle
Living a healthy life is not about being skinny and fit, there is so much more to a healthy lifestyle than this. It’s about how you feel not just physically but emotionally and mentally. A healthy lifestyle should not only change your body but affect how you think, your attitude, and your mood. Set goals for yourself and instead of focusing so much on what can happen if you do something or change something in your life use that energy to take action now to get closer to your goals. Remember your goals are investments in your well being. Where we are mentally affects our daily emotions. If you are always in a negative mindset, always thinking about the things that go wrong and what could go wrong will not only negatively affect your overall emotions but over time will affect your body physically.
There are always going to be factors that play a role in our everyday stress whether it’s having to much on your plate, financial issues, work, or just in life generally. But life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about you growing as a person and learning to make changes for the better. I am here to share ways to do this while being realistic about it all. Obviously everybody’s life is different and we all have our own struggles, so what works for some may not work for others.
Over the years I have learned that living healthy is more than just being active and eating healthy. You can’t help others if you can’t help yourself and putting yourself first is not selfish. If your constantly allowing everyday stress to bring you down, always looking at the negatives in life, putting yourself down, judging yourself, and comparing your life to others, it’s going to have toll on your body. Being in a good mental and emotional state is just as important as taking the time to be physically active and fueling yourself with the right foods.
Then there is parenting which is a daily struggle of its own. I am a mother to 3 kids ages two, six, and a ten year old. I am also a wife and go to school full time. To say the least life gets pretty chaotic in our house and stressful at times and I question how we are going to get through the rough times but we always seem to find a way. It’s not always easy but we manage to get through. There is no such thing as the perfect parent and we all have our own parenting styles and ways of parenting each child because every child is different and unique in their own way. Children should not all be parented the same way, just us they are their own person and learn in different ways. Parenting does not come with a manual and raising our children is a constant learning experience for us all. Our kids have NF1 which is a neurological disorder but affects everyone differently just like Autism, our son is also on the Autism Spectrum and has PDD-NOS and is considered non-verbal even though he tries his hardest talk, he also has Speech Apraxia, and Inattentive ADHD which between everything makes talking for him hard. Our daughters on the other hand are very active and talkative girls but have their differences as well. Our youngest is our rough and tough tomboy and our older daughter is our softy who takes so much to heart. So, how we parent each of our children is different not only because of their ages but because they are unique in their own way.
