I got Covid’ed, but I got Coached!

As some of you may know, I got COVID. It was tough on my body but specially my mind. The mind is powerful and can take over clouding your thinking quickly. I was overwhelmed with sick kids, their disappointment of missing the last week of school, cancelling a much awaited trip with the grandparents, rescheduling sessions and classes, running the house (you know, cooking 3 healthy meals+snacks, laundry, cleaning like a mad woman) while I was feeling as bad as I had never felt before. I was impatient, unhappy, asking my body to do things it could not. I ignored my gut feeling on what I should be doing to recover and instead pushed myself. Too much. But aren’t you a health coach? don’t you know better? Exactly! My job is to guide people to connect with their bodies and minds from a place of grace and strive for progress over perfection. But that doesn’t mean I have everything figured out, and I am not embarrassed to admit it now after working on this A LOT, specially in relation to being a coach!

I now believe vulnerability is what helps me connect with the people I work with: I am not perfect, but that doesn’t mean I can’t guide them in their journey, I know what they mean, what they feel. My health coach helped me wake up, and seek the space I needed. It worked, but I am sure we will touch on this again soon. Situations that challenge us always pop up, but I know that as long as we keep a WIP mindset (work in process!) we will not stop evolving.

Not super proud of my behavior, but proud that I did something to change it. And that is what it is all about, right? Health coach or not!