After four long years, I've decided to start blogging again. This time around, I'm approaching it from a new angle-- a healthy angle. While I ran a semi-successful fitness blog back in 2012 (I'm talking ~8,000 followers), I wasn't in the healthiest of mindsets. Consumed by multiple eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression, I was blogging out of place of desperate validation. The pressure of maintaining a healthy and happy facade was too much to handle, so I decided to shut my fitness empire down.
A period of critical self-reflection, self-discovery, and experience followed the end of my Tumblr career, resulting in me arriving to wholesome state. What I mean by that is I am finally grounded, and self-aware. I am aware of my insecurities, the roots of those insecurities, and how I operate and think as a human being. With all of this comes a true and encompassing acceptance of who I am, where I am at in life, and where I want to go. I no longer view exercise and diet as core component of my self-worth, rather, they are tools that nourish my being. Validation no longer comes from external sources, rather, it comes from within because I've reached a place where I know and believe in my worth.
By no means is this journey of self-acceptance and understanding over-- it's only just beginning. Life, as I've learned, is nothing but a series of problems; however, there are problems you are more excited to face than others. I've adopted the mindset that I have a choice in the direction my life goes. I am no longer a passive bystander in the course of my life. Instead, I am an active director in shaping and moulding my personal journey on this planet.
With that introduction, I want to share the purpose of this blog with you all! Supplementary to the videos on my YouTube channel, this blog will house anything and everything relating to my life, realizations, discoveries, and opinions on health and wellness. My hope for this blog is that it'll spark discussions, new perspectives, and insights in the way you think about and view the world.
So, friends, here we go.
All my love,
Nicole