I am currently doing more to support my nervous system, mainly by slowing down more during the day and this has started with less screen time, which has created more space for things like reading and I recently discovered the insight timer app which has helped me develop a litttle meditation and journaling routine.✨ These small shifts are really helping me feel more connected and clear within my daily actions. I also find it reallty helpful to have some structure in place, I find it much easier to take action steps when there is something to follow that feels achievable. When my head was full of food rules and noise a few years ago it was so hard to listen to my body at all, and so if you are at the start of this intuitive eating process self care might look like prioritising more time to sit down and eat, getting enough sleep, and setting more boundaries in your life. What self care act would help you be more able to listen to your body this week?

Why do our eating preferences change with the seasons?! Autumn has set in and where I live it’s about 6 degrees and my eating preferences have completely shifted!

I have enjoyed a lovely weekend off after a busy couple of weeks💗 Had a lovely date yesterday with my partner at a restaurant called the giggling squid, we then enjoyed a spring walk and finished with pudding in a lovely cafe before heading home.🥰 Today has been watching a nostalgic film this morning and this afternoon doing some batch baking for breakfast bars and yummy nourishing snacks for the week ahead.🤩 Also going through some difficult things at the moment so also had a few episodes of crying and feeling low as well doing things that were joyful.💕 What have you been up to this weekend?🤍

Day off looking exactly like this 🥰 Flapjack, a banana, Yorkshire Life magazine and Neo taking up most of the bed in the van. This is genuinely my idea of heaven. I’ve been working longer hours lately so days like this feel even more important right now. Just pottering, reading, doing nothing in particular. Proper rest, not just collapsing at the end of the day . How do you rest? I’d love to know what a proper day off looks like for you — drop it in the comments below 🤍

Something’s been going on for me lately in my personal life that has been exceptionally hard to navigate. And the thing I keep coming back to is — a few years ago this would have had me eating my way through the kitchen cupboards. Not even consciously. Just that pull towards food when everything feels like a bit much. These last few weeks that didn’t happen. I haven’t even really noticed until now. It’s now automatic for me to do things that help me process the emotion first instead of numbing out with food every time like I used to do, so some things I’ve done is I reached out for support, spent time in nature, I’ve been processing my feelings through talking and meditation, reading, cuddling my animals, and am slowly coming through the other side. No food noise. No food guilt. No trying to feel better with a packet of biscuits and then feeling worse. It’s not a big announcement or anything. Just a quiet thing I wanted to share because sometimes it’s easy to forget how far you’ve come when you’re in the middle of something difficult. If you’re having a hard week too, I hope this is a little reminder that the work you’re putting in here really does work and it will transform your life in so many wonderful ways. Even when it doesn’t feel like it. 🤍 Ps I saw my lovely friend at work today and told her I’m really struggling with some personal stuff at the moment and she gave me a big hug and we took a silly selfie🥰✨