Possibility and potential are two words which when I die, I hope people will associate with my mahi. Whether it’s mental health or our physical health I am driven to help others see they are more than ‘who they think they are’ or ‘what they think they are capable of’. I don’t know where this drive comes from but I do know that it is through this drive that I am here to tell the tale. Ten years of living in darkness led me to the point of having to look fundamentally at myself and at my own beliefs. Clearly those beliefs weren’t working for me and I set out to change them at a very deep level. My life now simply gets better and better because of my ability to keep questioning, owning and transforming those beliefs. Nope it doesn’t mean #$%! things don’t happen to me or that I don’t hurt, it just means that I have learnt to allow that pain to turn into something that serves me instead of limits me. My korero and mahi with people must always start with the readiness for change and from there we can move to what’s possible and potential. I share how to turn that negative narrative into a positive one enabling people to change their trajectory. It is possible, I’ve done it, and no clinical expert can take that experience away. I was Anorexic as a teenager which is another story, but my late mother said to me once during my dark years “Carla if you are strong enough to starve yourself then you are strong enough to get through this”. She was right!.. This is a great example of how our intentions (be them negative or positive) can turn into our realities. It’s all in what choose to focus on and why.
Increasing exercise is another effective first step to creating a feedback loop which is positive. We need to grab these loops and develop on them when they occur, thus changing our filters, thus changing the stories that we tell ourselves in our own heads. As an exercise provider of 30 years I am a big advocate of any sort of exercise. To take care of ones’ body is also to take care of one’s mind. We all now know that endorphins are released when we exercise, especially the type of exercise which raises our heart rates. We release our ‘pleasure substances’, which help relieve stress and anxiety. Exercise is natures own “drug”. Why wouldn’t we be doing it is more the question to ask ourselves.
My approach to health is very holistic, and once we learn how to move past ourselves and who we ‘think’ we are, the rest is history and freedom possible.
Increasing exercise is another effective first step to creating a feedback loop which is positive. We need to grab these loops and develop on them when they occur, thus changing our filters, thus changing the stories that we tell ourselves in our own heads. As an exercise provider of 30 years I am a big advocate of any sort of exercise. To take care of ones’ body is also to take care of one’s mind. We all now know that endorphins are released when we exercise, especially the type of exercise which raises our heart rates. We release our ‘pleasure substances’, which help relieve stress and anxiety. Exercise is natures own “drug”. Why wouldn’t we be doing it is more the question to ask ourselves.
My approach to health is very holistic, and once we learn how to move past ourselves and who we ‘think’ we are, the rest is history and freedom possible.
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