Community Pop-Up: What helps you feel good in your body?
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This month, as a follow-up to Part 3 of my series on Quieting Food Noise (Without Ozempic), I’d love to know:
What habits, practices, or choices (things within your control) help your physical body feel good? What habits, practices, or choices bring your physical body more peace and ease?
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- Dana
For me, eating nourishing food around the same time every day - slowly, without stress or rushing - has come to feel essential for feeling really good in my body. The same goes for daily yoga, which brings much-needed ease to my body and mind.
Another thing that makes a huge difference for me is sleep. Wearing an eye mask and avoiding alarms unless absolutely necessary has been a game changer. (Though, unfortunately, I still find myself staying up too late reading most nights…sigh.)
I love this prompt, Dana.
For me, it's moving my body in a way that feels fun—I oscillate between dance, muay thai, and strength training as my base, also basing my movement on my cycle has been life-changing. I've more recently been adding some stretches before bed (mostly in bed while reading) and that's been feeling good.
Eating nourishing (and enough) food is really important for me, although I've been struggling there lately. I've come back to the goal of cooking more at home and will be leaning into that in the coming weeks because I can feel how sluggish my body is feeling based on the foods I've been eating. I'm excited to get back into a routine of cooking and getting the nutrients I need to feel my best.
And lastly, getting enough sleep is crucial. Now that it's cool here in Pai I've been sleeping a lot more which feels great! Winding down with a book rather than a show or my phone helps, too. I don't rush getting up in the morning and luckily I get to wake up without an alarm (other than the furry alarm that sometimes wants to go outside early).