What is consistency? For health and wellness, it’s regularity in doing something. There’s not much change to what you’re doing (the activity) even if the details are different, the overarching goal still gets done. This is the definition I’ve crafted and I know it needs work. How does this look? Let’s take being active: Everyday I want to move my body-somedays that means I get to the gym, other days that may mean getting 10,000 steps in, other days I’ll do my morning yoga and get maybe 4,000 steps and another other day it may be gardening for an hour. I am consistently moving (overarching goal) but how I go about it differs (details/activities.)
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Read moreWhat’s No Work Wednesday? Why did I start it? So far it’s going well. This is about self care and self preservation. Read more about it and get some joy in your life.
Read moreI wrote about my trip to Palenque which is a free town located an hour out of Cartagena. It has been and is currently an all Black town. There’s a ton of history, culture and traditions that I learned about. It’s a place I loved ( I want to return for to spend more time) and made my trip to Colombia complete.
Read moreToday I am finally tackling rest.
What does resting look like for you?
Do you have boundaries around your rest time?
Why is it important , to you, to have moments of rest in your life?
Read moreGetting out and gardening has been a wellness practice for me during Covid shut downs and the unrest around the Black Lives Matter Movement. To talk about joys (and pains) of gardening one must go back and learn this history of farming and black farmers as well as the various solutions and movements that are educating and bringing power and ownership to us.
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