Beginners Guide to Getting Your Life Back

So, you’re not feeling well. Not mentally, not emotionally, not physically, not at all. The struggle of finding balance once again in life seems like an impossible job. Well-balanced people have far more work to do to stay balanced. Those who aren’t balanced obviously have far more less work to do—at least that’s how we feel—that’s why we don’t do anything to change.  


What does a healthy life balance mean to you? What does it mean altogether? How do you want to go about finding your balance? How should you go about it? 


Here are 5 beginning steps to get your life back. 


1. DISCONNECT & DISAPPEAR

• Get off of social media, stop answering your calls, stop answering your texts. If it’s for a weekend, or a few hours a night, disconnect, disappear. Give yourself a break. Hangout with just yourself. Journal, read, clean, drive. Spend time alone and allow yourself to reconnect with yourself for just a little while. It makes all the difference.

2. PAY MORE ATTENTION TO YOU

• Your health is incredibly important, so start prioritizing it. When you tune into your health, you tune into what you really need. You start listening to what your body needs, what your mind needs, what your heart needs. When you’re listening and honoring what your body is requesting, balance within yourself will automatically start to restore. So start listening, stop ignoring.

3. YOUR RELATIONSHIPS MATTER

• You don’t have to do it all alone. The people you allow in your life, matter. Those who you allow to influence you, matter. Those who you allow to either lift you up or drag you down, matters. If you’re trying to restore balance in your life, you need to recognize who cares for you and will support that. You need to recognize those in your life who will allow you to grow for yourself before you continue to help others. That support system is going to help your process go so much smoother. 

4. EXPLORE & EXPAND

• Just like it’s important to disconnect to be with yourself, it’s important to explore the world around you while you’re doing that. Take a new route in your walks or drives. Take the weekend for a roadtrip. Expand your awareness in your life. Take a class for a hobby you’ve been interested in. Read that book you’ve been putting off. Listen to new music you’ve been curious about. Just find what interests you. Find what interests you and go for it all.

5. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

• How cliche, right? How lame. But also, seriously, is it not true? You are in charge of you. You are in charge of your outcome. You are in charge of your change. You are as capable as you allow yourself to be. You’re the only one who can schedule time to do the dishes or put a load of laundry in because it’s been piling up. You’re the only one who can put everything else off because you just really need a break for the weekend. You’re the only one who can choose to love yourself. You’re the only one who can choose to make the small changes so that you can start feeling better about potential new outcomes in life. Life is what you make it. So make it something you’re incredibly thrilled to be apart of. 

We can’t change everything at once. We have to make small changes. Changes that are small enough that feel so minuscule, it’ll feel almost too easy to start feeling better again. These small adjustments that we make overtime is that exact process that will allow us to find a new set of positive life habits to build off of.