I believe that we built back up numerous times until finally, we are whole again.
I have to be honest with you. I haven’t always been on this health journey. At 25, I was a property consultant and a beauty entrepreneur in Karachi. During these successful and peak moments in life, I was going through a divorce that made me enter a very dark place in my life…
During this very painful time of my life, I was running around thousand miles per hour to avoid sitting with myself, working way too much and isolating myself from the people I cared about, I was highly depressed, stressed and anxious, I was dealing with panic attacks and I ate almost everything I wanted. I was a chocolate addict, drank soda, never ate green vegetables, ate processed food, and frequently went to fast-food restaurants.
Along with adrenal fatigue, hormonal imbalances, depression, mineral and vitamin deficiencies, adult acne, eczema, weight gain, pre-diabetes, PCOS and hair fall my body was sending me all the signs to stop.
I vividly remember laying in my bed with a pile of medications in a puddle of tears with absolutely no idea what was happening with my body, nothing would work.
I was so frustrated, I felt so helpless. And I made a decision that this could not go on and I decided to give up fighting the way through endless diets that didn’t work. I had tried every diet and concoction that came my way and absolutely nothing worked. I tried every natural remedy. That didn’t work. I always ended up overindulging, much like someone who’s holding their breath and eventually has to take another breath. I tried exercising like crazy, but that left me more exhausted. I felt even worse about myself as I felt like I was just punishing myself for eating.
Then that day on the bed when I decided to give up the struggle, I shouted, “Doesn’t anyone know how to fix this?, I tried everything there is out there!! .”
But then I had a thought what if the answer is not out there? What if the answer is in here?
As I placed my hand on my chest, I decided to lighten up on myself and just be an observer of myself for a bit and treat my body like a living lab.
It was a wake up call….
I realised somehow, my body was capable of keeping my heart beating, and my lungs breathing and could heal a cut finger. And I thought maybe, just maybe, my body knew what to do with my PCOS too. Rather than punishing myself for results I didn’t like from dieting, I decided if I could learn what foods, activities, behaviors, and thoughts or anything else made me feel better, and which ones did not. And trusting my intuition, I healed my gut and balanced my hormones, my energy improved, my skin improved, and I felt amazing. And now I love the way I look and feel.
I learned that diets don’t work, but approaching health holistically absolutely does.
So if you’re struggling with stress, low energy, hormonal imbalance, acne and feeling frustrated and hopeless, and wondering how you can learn how to balance your overall well-being, then.