Perspectives on Healing in the New Year

With each new year comes new hope for healing. But all too often, the New Year brings strong feelings of guilt for your nutrition and lifestyle over the past year and especially the holidays.

So a lot of people go through great excitement about a New Year’s resolution, which involves some form of flagellation. This may look like some or all of the following in any combination:

  • Deprivation diets, fasts, cleanses (a.k.a. starvation)
  • Excessive exercise (a.k.a. exhaustion)
  • Financial investments in a get skinny/get fit/be perfect program, product, etc.

These things are super-popular. Stuff like this goes viral on social media, and many hashtags revolve around the New Year’s resolutions theme. But where is the healing in any of this?

New Year’s Resolutions: super-popular and impressively ineffective

Every year, if you’ve noticed, there is this great fervor, and then it dies away. Why? Because the changes are not sustainable or practical. And even more significantly, most people who invest in them don’t obtain healing.

Why don’t we get results from our efforts?

  • We need a deep understanding of our own unique inner motivations to stay on track.
  • Without a deep understanding of our own unique health journey, we can’t develop the right strategy to achieve our goals.
  • Our unique issues require a unique approach. Miracle products and programs don’t aim to help you reach your goals. In fact, they aim to sell themselves to anyone who will buy.
  • If you don’t love yourself, motivation and perseverance can’t last very long.
When these basic ingredients are missing, we get sucked into the trap of miracle cures, one-size-fits-all solutions and over-simplified ideas of how things work. We get seduced by click-bait titles and hashtags that have nothing to do with our own goals or our own reality and have everything to do with someone else’s self-promotion.
There’s nothing wrong with other people promoting themselves. But if you want to achieve your own goals, you’ll need to invest in yourself!

How individualized nutritional therapy is different

Unlike a product or a program that promises to fix everyone’s problems, as a client-centered functional health practitioner, I take each client’s unique story and context as my starting point. In our work together, we collaborate to set goals and action steps that fit your situation. I take your full history and ask lots of questions. And I listen to you a lot because your story is super-important to me.

After taking your history, I work behind the scenes to connect the dots between the various moving parts of your story. And between the parts and the whole.

I spend a lot of time on each case because I have to get to know your story in order to help you set and meet your goals.

There is no magic bullet. No shortcuts. But there is your journey. Your story. Uniquely yours.

Let’s work together!

It can be very difficult to navigate your health alone. If you are overwhelmed or confused, make sure you reach out for help!

And if you’re a holistic healthcare practitioner looking to provide excellent client-centered support to the people who come your way, check out my case study group, where you can learn from me and an engaged group of peers.