Start today. Put your hand on your heart. Feel your breath moving in and out. Your heart has beaten millions of times to keep you alive. Your lungs have exchanged oxygen without your conscious thought. Your body has carried you through every joy, every grief, every ordinary Tuesday.
The traditional wellness model operates on shame. It assumes that if you feel bad about your body, you will be motivated to change it. Study after study in behavioral psychology shows that shame is a terrible long-term motivator. Shame triggers cortisol (the stress hormone), which leads to inflammation, emotional eating, and metabolic dysfunction.
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If you want to pursue a wellness lifestyle without abandoning body acceptance, try these principles:
, the focus shifts from "fixing" ourselves to "fueling" ourselves. The Mindset Shift