22/03/2022
✨Listening to Our Bodies✨
Being pregnant has flagged up something massive for me:
I’m s**t at listening to what my body needs.
Well, I was, when it was just me I had to think about.
I would stay up late even though I was tired, I’d go for a run even though my legs were sore, I’d wait to eat later even though I was hungry NOW… etc. etc. etc.
When you have life growing inside you, you finally realise (after 31 years😂) that your body is giving you signals every day about what it wants & needs.
But ‘ambition culture’, ‘hustle culture’ & ‘work-until-you-burn-out culture’ has beaten than inner knowing out of us, encouraging us to go through our days believing that everything has to be done now now NOW🏃🏻♀️
Well, not now. Me and my cub take naps when we need them, we eat as often & as much as we want, we stop work as soon as we feel tired & we make very few plans to be sociable💁🏻♀️
I only hope that I can carry this lesson with me when I come back to work, as rest is medicine & I can’t believe it’s taken me getting up the duff to realise that🤣
