HOW NUTRITIOUS ARE YOUR APPLES? 🍏🍏

WARNING: This post is about nutrition for the SOUL...

I’m always refreshed when I grocery shop on Sundays. Feeling hopeful as I enter the produce department of the grocery store with a new start to the week and how I get to choose from a healthy selection of fruits 🍉 and vegetables 🍅.

9 times out of 10, I find myself with quality choices. But every now and then I’ll get home and take a bite out of a mealy apple or a flavorless orange.  I don’t eat it.  It’s a difficult choice because I just paid for it, but I’m forced to throw it away or take it back.

This weekend I had that “A-HA” moment recognizing that despite the occasional disappointment in the “pieces of fruit” around me, I have similar choices with whom I surround myself.  

Whether I eat healthy or not, or choose to toss the apple, either choice has long lasting effects. 

I am on an upward trajectory towards between my media/marketing career, the launch of Steppingstone Haven Yoga & Wellness Studio, and the progress I’ve been making on the simultaneous clean-up of the residual mess of co-dependent relationships, marriage, children, divorce, bankruptcy, and the loss of loved ones.

Since making a personal and conscious decision to re-ignite a long-time, dormant desire of opening my yoga and wellness studio, I’m under the microscope with some and have fielded some pretty harsh judgement lately. 

Things like…Why are you doing this? Who are you to do this? How do you expect to make money doing this?  What do I know about yoga and meditation, life coaching and spiritual breath work and healing?

On the flip side, I have also received incredible support and understanding from others after spending a week of “eating” clean, and here are the answers I’ve come up with ...

Why wouldn’t I do this?

Who am I not to do this?

I have a business plan that reflects the opportunity to make money.  I also understand that I am investing in myself and my beliefs.

And what do I know about yoga and meditation, life coaching and breath work????

I know that it saved me from a very recent and turbulent two years of my life. I know the effects of practicing. I know the growth that I’ve achieved from it. Why not share my experience with my community, and the opportunity to do the same?

Over the past week I am re-ignited by my recent nutritional choices. And I don’t mean food. I mean the people I encounter who fuel my soul.  Who fuels your soul?