Do you have a …thing… that keeps tripping you up?
I used to think about food ALL THE DAMN TIME.
You might be thinking…so what the hell does food have to do with professional burnout??
I was drained and couldn’t even begin to figure out how to regain or even attempt to establish my sense of …”being a professional.”When I became a life coach and learned how to literally create time, freedom and space for ME.
Part of how I regained that energy was when…I became aware of how much mental energy I unconsciously slated to just thinking (sometimes obsessing) about what I should/would/could eat.
I realized most of my life was based around what I was going to eat (or drink) next- and even when I didn’t want to think of food- it kept creeping in… haunting me. No matter how much I learned about nutrition, portion size, meal planning, keto, low carb, hit training, lifting heavy, yoga…all. the. things.
My brain went to food.
I learned about my over-desire for food and how it was taking up so much of my brain energy and ruling my life personally AND professionally.
I decided I want to use my precious brain energy to think about other things (lol, how profound).
I want a fabulous life- not fabulous food-thoughts. I want an exciting, meaningful life not food.
I want to spend my brain energy creating, helping, giving, living.
You guys- I literally learned how to not over-think about food, which created so much FREEDOM!
I mean, I think about it enough to be healthy- but not more than I need to.
Now, I love re-assigning that energy for ME, on purpose. I love giving that energy to my babies, my family, my clients, my home.
I love making things beautiful. I looooooove thinking about what I can create and what my clients are creating for themselves.
I love thinking about my impact on the world- just being able to show up as a person who isn’t ruled by food.
I deepened my relationship with myself and my relationship with food; learning how to allow an urge without answering it vs. trying to resist and use will power against urges changed. my. life.
and it wasn’t a big, scary, dreadful problem my brain was making it out to be.
Brains are the most powerful tool we have to create results in our life…but brains need daily supervision.
Let me be clear- food isn’t the enemy- although my brain used to intensely “chew” on it… it wasn’t an intentional focus I truly wanted in my life.
What do you want?
Do you have things that you tend to unintentionally “over-think” about? Money, work, shopping, chores??
(if your are a human being- you probably do)
Hugs and Love,
Angie
P.S. I help SLPs learn to manage the things that keep us from living our best lives. It is my passion to end the burnout, over-work, stress culture in our field. Schedule a free 60 minute consultation if you’d like to see what it’s like to work with a SLP life coach. I got you.
