Carrie Baker – The Growth Collective

There is nothing like a long week of illness to make you rethink your life style.
Not that I am a particularly unhealthy person, I just eat certain things that my body doesn’t tolerate too well. That and the fact I love dark chocolate…….
If it were able, what would my body says to me about how I have treated it all these years?
I’ve done a lot of thinking….

What is the quality of our life if we don’t have our health? What can we achieve if we live under a cloud of illness?

I have seen chronic illness, and my heart breaks for those who suffer daily.
I know in my life I take for granted things that others would sell a limb for.

I take my health for granted, that I’ll wake each day able to go about my life as per usual.
But struggling through this last week has made me realise that nothing is certain, and I am making choices about my body that are of absolutely no benefit.

Why do I eat gluten and dairy? Because I like it.
Because it’s easier to eat pasta with everyone else than cook different pasta. Because my body doesn’t react ‘that badly’.
What damage have I (unknowingly) done to my body, by eating food for pleasure rather than eating food for a healthy life? What am I teaching my children? To eat what you feel like, or eat what is good for your body?
How many health issues will we have in our later years, that stem from eating badly in our younger ones? I’m worried it will all catch up with us in the end…..

Over the years I have read a lot about diet and the amazing benefits of eating really healthily. I have watched videos on the negative effects of our ‘modern diet’.
I haven’t cut out all the bad that I ingest (I need coffee – just one), but out of necessity, I’ve made a lot of changes.
And I am actually enjoying it, I feel better in myself already.
Maybe it will even improve my writing skills!

This isn’t intended to be a lecture to anyone, I just wanted share some of my life.
Because maybe, just maybe it’ll help someone out there who is standing at the edge of a life choice.
Take care of you, take care of your families.
Keep being the amazing creation you are.
Write on my friends, write on…..

Just Write It!