I always liked sports, but it wasn't until my time at college when I started to run regularly, as I had more time for myself. But then I graduated, moved to Madrid and started to work, so I stopped running and exercising at all. By the age of 24 I was totally sedentary again. 

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When I turned 30 I started to run again consistently.  Finding the time for it was the challenge. I already had a family and a demanding job. So I usually had to go for a run late at night or early before dawn. It was stressful to find the time for everything. I was not getting enough sleep, but I was young, and my young body could bear it. I was, though, ignoring how much I was taxing my future health.

 

By that time I was considering myself already healthy: runner, not smoker, occasionally drinker. But I was not prioritizing myself over work, and family responsibilities, rushing all day. First to the office in the mornings and then arriving home late at evenings, taking care of the children, and finding the time for running in between.

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But, I was about to learn that health is much more than just eating healthy and exercising regularly, and that I still was pretty far from being truly healthy.

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I was in my mid 30s when my true journey to a healthy life began after a pain episode in my low abdomen.

As usually happens with stress related issues, after I slowed down the pace, it's when I felt really sick. Right after quitting my job in Spain and moving to Sweden, I started to feel pain and discomfort in my abdomen.

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I had suffered from chronic constipation for decades. It first started innocently. When I was a child, I never wanted to interrupt whatever I was playing with to go to the bathroom, so whenever I was in need to go, I just didn't. Going to the toilet was an absolute lost of time for me.

When I was a teenager, I already was chronically constipated. Then as a young adult, I simply did not take the time for fixing my problem. Going to the toilet was the last thing on my list. I was not listening to my body needs, and did not take the time for it on my daily routines. So I was barely going to the toilet once or twice a week.

On my late 20s, I started to feel worse, with discomfort and cramps most of the days. And by my early 30s I knew I could not continue healthy for long if I didn't fix it.

 

So when I suffered the pain episode, I thought it was the end. I imagined myself saying goodbye to my family so early, so unexpectedly. 

I felt so guilty and stupid for not having changed my bad habits earlier and having ignored my body needs for around 20 years. I had simply procrastinated, relying on being young with plenty of time ahead.

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Luckily, after visiting doctors and making tests, nothing serious was found. They diagnosed me with IBS. But I knew it was a vague diagnosis, and what I had was not a real disease but a problem I had created with my awful habits, nothing I inherited in my genes.

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I had a terrible time. I knew it was time to fix my issue if I wanted to have a chance.

I understood that nothing is more urgent than ourselves, and that it is our daily habits what make us healthy or sick.

Many of the diseases we are diagnosed with are non-congenital diseases, and may arise due to our bad habits, or lack of good ones. As Will Durant said it, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit"

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We are living in a toxic place today. We are always busy and stressed. But our bodies are not yet adapted. Our mind-body systems function properly when we are calm and relaxed, because that was how we lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Stress makes our systems to malfunction, triggering inflammation as the root cause of many potential ailments.

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I learned that health is holistic, much more than just nutrition and exercise. How we exercise or how we eat our food matters also. So I decided to get certified as a health coach to help more people get this broader approach to health.

As a certified IIN health coach, I support my clients in this holistic approach to overall wellness.

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We live in a stressing and toxic environment that progressively taxes our wellness and happiness.

Finding our way to complete happiness and wellness requires our awareness and acknowledgement of where we are and what matter to us.

 

Being healthy is a personal journey. You have to make it yours, depending on your preferences, not following somebody's else plan.

My health journey is unique, and that is what makes it a no return journey. Recommending someone to copy my journey would not probably work. 

My mission is to help you find your own path for your healthy journey. This way it will become a no return journey also for you.

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Are you ready to take the first step into your new healthy life?

Just request an initial free consultation and get ready to start your no return journey to health and happiness!!