how I got here - part 2!
Have you been waiting for Part 2?! I sure hope so! The wait is over…
So, my healthier lunches at the law firm turned into healthier dinners at home. They were balanced and got me to stop eating fast food. Breakfast during those days were better too beause I would meal prep those as well. Sidebar - if you haven’t read part 1 click here and read that first. I would say at this point I was mainly motivated by wanting a more fulfilling life for myself. I wanted to have energy, I wanted to cook more, I wanted to step into a future self that I hadn’t yet realized. Up until this point I felt like I was operating on auto-pilot. Doing things I had always done just for the fact that I had always done them. Not really reading (I loved to read when I was in my 20’s), watching too much TV, and being on social media preoccupied by all things PARTY! You know - alive but not LIVING. That’s how I felt even though at the time I wouldn’t have necessarily said those words. If you’re counting, that was my second ‘baby step’ - I decided I wanted to change.
While at the law firm I understood that this was a stepping stone and I used it as that. My confidence was much improved, my energy level was good and I decided to go for a better job. I was at the law firm for about 3 months before transitioning to a new job at a local university medical school. If the law firm didn’t happen first, this job would’ve never have been an option. I wouldn’t have even applied, I wouldn’t have had the energy. While at the university I started commuting which forced me to be active. Taking the train, running up the stairs at the station, walking to the bus stops, etc. Soon I got motivated enough to walk over a mile on occassion to meet my husband for lunch. Truly this was such a huge improvement and something that made me feel so good! Come on counters - baby step 3 is here….becoming more active changed my persception about what was possible for me even more.
I think most people might stop here as far as adding more change if it was all about personal improvement. My next step/choice that I made was decided because of that desire I talked about in part 1 during my time in college. I have a true affinity and attraction for the sciences in general but really health, nutrition and the human body. Add to that, I’m a self-improvement junky and I LOVE all things self-help and the mechanics of the mind-body connection. I geek out on things like how habits form and how to change behaviors. So from here I stared to research things I could do to deepen my personal knowlege on health and nutrition and found health coaching.
Step 4 - continue to improve! Joining the Institue for Intergrative Nutrition (IIN) in their health coaching program was one of the best decisions I could’ve ever made for myself. My curiosity has expanded so much and I’m grateful to have rediscovered a passion of mine that I thought was gone. For years I thought it was too late to do anything different, I could not have imagined entering the nutrition field at this point in my life. Now that I have chosen this direction, I’m not sure I can see anything different than this. I continue to be grateful for the gifts I’ve been blessed with that I’m able to use in order to help others.
I’m literally just getting started, I hope you stick around or check back in to view everything I have coming in the near future for Wholly Khaliah.
If there was ever an “after”, this would be close. For years not even wanting to be seen in family photos because I wasn’t “perfect” I now jump in alllll the photos!
XXO,
Khaliah
