An Intuitive Approach to Health| Amy Melle
The word HEALTH can be so intimidating. All sorts of things start to fly into your head. Am I eating the right food? How much exercise should I be doing? Am I even healthy? These thoughts can easily turn negative, and can start to focus on numbers and the way your body looks. This is why so many people feel stuck in these continuous cycles of dieting, body shaming, and negative self talk. When I took an intuitive approach to health, I started to see everything in my life change.
Complete mental shift. What does that even mean? Mental shifts are the change in consciousness and our emotional state. That means we need to start looking and assessing how we think. What do we think when we look in a mirror? When conflict arises? When something does not go our way? When something great and exciting happens? For me, this was stopping the negative self talk and body shaming that I once did, and instead, talking to my body from a place of love. I literally look in the mirror and thank my stomach for growing two incredible humans, my legs for taking me everywhere I need to go, and I tell my body how much I love and appreciate it. Your mind has complete power over your life - don’t mistake that. I also had to shift my mentality around physical activity. Physical activity for me a few years ago was from a place of hating my body, working off food choices I labeled as “bad,” and wanting to be “skinny.” Now, physical activity is something I do because I feel strong, brings a great community, helps my mental health, and my sleep. I constantly surprise and push myself in the gym and that just makes me feel so, so good.
The World Health Organization's definition of Health is: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. I completely believe our health is not just defined by the food we eat and the exercise we get. Health is so much more. Here are a few questions we should think about. How are your relationships with friends and family? What kind of spiritual practice do you do? What kinds of emotions does your job bring you? What do you do for YOU that brings joy to your life? What kind of people do you surround yourself with? All of these questions probably brought you so many different answers and thoughts. These are all areas of our lives that we should be investing more time. We need to make sure we are being more intentional as this will help us to become our healthiest selves.
My last thing is about creativity and our mentality in the kitchen. When most people think about getting healthy, they start to think about what foods to stop eating. I like to take a different approach. Ask yourself, “What food am I NOT eating that I should ADD into my diet?” This will start to crowd out some of those foods you may label as ‘bad’ with colorful, fresh foods. The kitchen can be a very intimidating place for people who don’t have much experience there, but meals can truly be so simple and so balanced at the same time. For me, it is a place of creativity. I wanted to share some of my favorite and most popular recipes with you guys, in hopes that you give one a try! I take a simple, balanced approach to recipes and provide a plethora of different recipe types, such as, full meals, munchies, dairy-free, gluten-free, meatless options, soups and more - there are options for every lifestyle!
Amy Melle
Health is so much more than the food on our plate and how much we exercise, I hope you leave today with a few takeaways!
Speak to your body from a place of love
Shift the way you think and perceive things
Fill your cup in different areas of your life
Experiment in the kitchen
Find some sort of physical exercise that you enjoy doing!
Shifting your mentality, self-love, deeply assessing areas of our lives, and confidence in the kitchen takes work and time. When you get to that place of feeling good, mentally and physically, my gosh, it feels so refreshing. I believe that an intuitive approach to health is something that creates generational changes in our families, long lasting effects on our health both mentally and physically, brings us healing, and is a sustainable lifestyle change.
Hey y’all I am Amy aka @mellesmunchies. I am a Texas based food blogger with a focus on simple, no fuss meals and munchies. I am a wife and mama to two beautiful girls that are quite literally my mini me’s. I preach a balanced lifestyle and mental health. Recovered binge eater and body positive advocate. I am a certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I have a passion for intuitive eating and helping others through their health journeys!
Note from Jeanette- Isn’t Amys story so inspiring, health shouldn’t be scary or intimidating. To here more from Amy click here for her instagram!!
