A Little Grace & Gratitude for Yourself
Starting new healthy habits or recovering from an injury can have its fair share of up and downs. While you are motivated to reach your goals, it’s essential to navigate this journey with grace and gratitude.
Grace
Grace is about acknowledging that success and lasting change takes time. Grace is also the ability to be kind to yourself, especially when setbacks occur. Whether you are rehabbing from an injury, or tracking progress on wellness goals, it’s crucial to remember that these journeys are not linear.
Frustration will happen on days when progress feels slow, and other days you will feel strong and on top of the world. This is normal and necessary to the journey. Instead of criticizing yourself for not being where you want to be, or think you should be, take a beat, and look back to where you started. If you hadn’t started, you wouldn’t be here, that much closer to your goals.
Gratitude
Gratitude can transform your fitness and rehab experience. When trying to achieve your goals, it’s easy to focus on what you can’t do or haven’t achieved yet, but shift your perspective to what your body has already accomplished, and a new appreciation for the work and commitment you’ve put in starts to shine through.
Engaging in a new fitness habit and recovering from an injury are similar in mindset.
Both require:
setting specific goals,
putting in the hard work, and
showing up for yourself first, so you can show up for others.
Gratitude isn’t always automatic. It’s like fitness training or healing, it’s something that requires attention, hard work, and space to grow. And when you commit to doing that, gratitude starts to become the foundation on which to build everything else.
As you celebrate the strength it takes to show up to the gym or fitness class, or acknowledge the space you gave your body to heal when you went for a walk instead of the run or lifting session, take a moment, breathe, and find the gratitude for your body’s resiliency and capacity for healing and growth.
Gratitude isn’t always automatic. It’s like fitness training or healing, it’s something that requires attention, hard work, and space to grow. And when you commit to doing that, gratitude starts to become the foundation on which to build everything else.
