111 People Share Their Stories of Survival, Resilience and Hope Through Hardship
Article Round-Up: 8.27.23
Enjoy this week’s curated list of articles, podcasts, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Coaching Conversations: Breaking Meal Archetypes
Takeaway: In this client conversation, we discuss a concept of meal archetypes. Meal archetypes are the default ways to thin about food in our minds. For example, we all have a sense of what foods are “healthy” and “not healthy” and those foods tend to fall into one category or another when we’re deciding what to eat.
As you’ll see in this individuals circumstances, sometimes what our archetype says and the reality can be different. Understanding this allows us to stop boxing in our food choices and gives us more freedom and control to hit nutrition targets in unexpected situations.
Dig in to learn about how you may be trapped by meal archetypes.
*Parts of the conversation were edited out to protect the privacy of the individual.
Published This Week:
“Diversify Your Self Worth To Limit Setbacks” [Podcast]
Takeaway: It’s bad financial advice to invest all of your savings into a single investment. If it fails, you lose everything. Instead, financial managers suggest spreading your investments across multiple channels to protect against any one project failing. We can apply this advice for our self-worth too.
If your entire identity is wrapped up in the gym or your workouts, then a single injury that requires rest can feel like your whole world came crashing down. If your entire sense of worth as a human is tied to your role as parent, you’ll have a much harder time when the kids grow up and move out on their own.
Spread your sense of identity and worth across multiple areas, and you can protect in the event that you lose any single piece.
“How To Keep Going When Life Tries To Hold You In Place: 111 People Share Their Stories of Survival, Resilience and Hope Through Hardship”
Takeaway: Life is hard. We’re all faced with trauma and pain along the way. This article shares some stories from the book of the same title of men and women coping with their own unique struggles.
It could help you connect and keep working through whatever is happening in your own life.
“The Cure For A Mediocre Life”
Takeaway: One takeaway I enjoyed from the author,
“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with experimentation. There is absolutely something wrong with conforming to the whims of others… There is one pattern I’ve noticed both in myself and those I aspire to be like:
They don’t limit what they learn to one thing. Everything connects.
By pursuing what you are curious about, not only are you motivated to learn, but pattern recognition increases good dopamine and solidifies high-level knowledge.”