06/22/2026
What if taking better care of yourself has more to do with the process than the outcome?
I mean we all hope that the outcome of caring for our bodies will be better health and greater quality of life. But what if we receive that benefit not because we succeeded in losing x number or pounds or curing our IBS or reaching our weight lifting goals. But maybe that benefit, that boost in our wellbeing, comes from the fact that we listened to our body and gave it what it needed, day in and day out, as a radical act of loving kindness. What if that is the source of our wellbeing, regardless of whatever arbitrary goal we set as an endpoint for ourselves.
Because, let’s be honest, we don’t necessarily have control over the end point. We might still be living in a larger body a year from now. We might still experience chronic pain. We might still have terrible perimenopause symptoms. We might still get anxiety attacks. Even if we’re doing all the “right” things. Even if we’re following all the “expert” advice about how to hack our health.
What we do have control over is how we treat our bodies, how we listen to our bodies, how we honor our bodies with compassion and kindness and love. This perspective on caring for our health is about connection instead of control, compassion instead of judgement, curiosity instead of expectations, and supporting instead of fixing.
This is the mindset I’m teaching my coaching clients. I’m not coaching weight loss or hormone hacking or a “fix” of any kind. I’m coaching self-love for our bodies that leads to the actions our bodies really need that leads to people actually functioning and feeling better because their bodies feel safe and cared for.
Isn’t that what we all really need? To feel safe and cared for?
If you’re curious to learn more about this approach to health, make sure you’re following me here, take a peek at my website www.holisticbodyworks.org, send me an email or a message with questions, or schedule a coaching consultation. I want to support you as learn to care for yourself the way your body deserves.