How do you make your health a priority?

I make my health a priority by waking up an hour and a half before I have to be anywhere or before I have to do anything. I try not to be on my phone as much as possible, writing in my journal, doing meditation, foam rolling, stretching, taking a shower, listening to silly music like Paramore or Tegan and Sara. Silly stuff that makes me feel good and nostalgic.

I have therapy every Thursday and although this isn’t realistic, I wish that I left therapy every single time feeling better versus thinking, ‘What the fuck did I do?’ But through therapy, I’ve learned that it’s about not judging myself and the things that I feel guilty of and carrying on that guilt after the session.

What has had a major impact on your life in the last year?

I took The Hoffman Process back in March to work on personal stuff. I felt like I had a block in my life where I could not move forward, as well as certain patterns from my parents from early childhood. How Hoffmann works is that I have to look at my life and the patterns that I developed from my parents or patterns I developed in rebellion of them. One of the biggest things that I learned that I had was a sense of abandonment and that came from a young age. When I was five years old, my mom dropped me off at kindergarten and I remember I had no idea where I was going.

“That was my first memory of feeling abandoned and I never realized how that feeling carried on into my adult life.”

Another thing that I learned was to not just forgive other people, but the most important thing is to forgive myself. A lot of people base their decisions on the past and also the shame of the past. I was basing decisions off of my past in the current present, not noticing that it was affecting who I wanted to be in the future.