It's Early on a Tuesday Morning in January: Are You Telling Yourself You "Should" Be at the Gym?

It's early on a Tuesday morning in January: are you telling yourself you "should" be at the gym?

Time, even if we have an excess, can feel squished and squeezed like every minute is promised to someone/thing. It's common for the womxn with whom I work to schedule themselves last, if at all.

Like many others, time is not only a static thing, but also a thing with which we are in relationship. What I mean:

When you think about how much time you have, do you consider how you'd like to fill it before you do so? Do you consider if some things will take a disproportionate amount of time up front, knowing they will take less time as you gain experience and efficacy? Does that prospect make you feel daunted, or do you feel excited by the idea? Do you feel like everything will be okay if you're "off schedule," or does that make your palms sweat thinking about "making up" "lost" time? Is time ever really lost at all?

Put another way:

Is discipline, a hallmark of #dietculture/#hustle culture, holding you back?
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If any of this made your heart prickle or your nose wrinkle, I'd invite you to consider if your time is full of obligations you'd drop if you felt like you could, and if your #selfcare or "you time" feels impossible to fit in (at best; quite commonly, this time-squeezing has the effect of making the things you're doing for yourself feel like another item on a to-do list). Where reliability gets sticky is when it's available to everyone but yourself. It's easy to overwork, overperform, and, therefore, overidentify with a jam-packed schedule, believing your goodness comes solely from being the caregiver or the grocery shopper or the boss or the chauffeur. Your relationship to time changes when you see how you want to feel moving through your day and what values you hold most dear.

If you're ready to dig in to what your values are and what they mean in your life and fitness, I'm opening 1:1 coaching slots for the first time in a while. I've revamped what was once a group program, The Bold Body Initiative, to be a deeper one-on-one experience. AND enrollment is open! You can learn more details by clicking here, or by checking the #BBI highlight in my Instagram profile.

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xoxo,
Steph