What a Healthy Life Actually Looks Like
We live in a world that tells us health is about doing more.
Eating cleaner. Exercising harder. Optimizing every habit until we finally feel “fixed.”
Skincare routines used to be washing your face with a cleanser followed by moisturizing, now it’s a 10-step routine that takes longer than my workout. Walking isn’t enough anymore…apparently everyone’s training for a marathon, signing up for Hyrox, or at this rate preparing to climb Everest. And if you’re not wearing a red-light therapy mask while standing on a vibration plate and swapping your morning coffee for ceremonial-grade matcha… are you even healthy?
And honestly, it’s not your fault.
My instagram is FULL of this. We’re constantly surrounded by messages telling us we’re not doing enough, that health requires cutting out certain foods, following a specific workout style, and nailing a flawless 5–9 a.m routine. Now all the sudden, waking up 30 minutes earlier to fit in that small morning walk feels like a failure.
Yes, early mornings and extra tools can be amazing.
But for many of us, that version of health feels exhausting, unsustainable, and strangely empty. Not to mention expensive.
And while supplements and tools can be helpful in the right season, they aren’t a requirement for being healthy.
So what if we looked at health in a different way from what we are fed on our phones?
Health is about alignment, about living in a way that supports your body, your mind, and the person you’re becoming.
It is so much more than how you look or what’s on your plate.
It’s how you show up for yourself each day.
The people you choose to surround yourself with.
Laughing. Having fun. Failing, and enjoying the experience anyway.
Having emotional days and letting yourself feel them.
Taking days to rest and allowing yourself to feel “lazy.”
Moving your body in a way that actually feels good
for you.
Here’s what it looked like for me to unlearn the version of health I was influenced to believe in and rebuild one that actually supports my life.
1.) Chasing thinness → Choosing Strength and vitality
2.) Eating to restrict → Eating to nourish
3.) Staying busy and filling the noise → Creating quite moments to connect with myself
4.) Saying yes to every social opportunity → Choosing people who genuinely light me up
5.) Avoiding action out of fear → Remembering I don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it
6.) Chasing perfect skin → Accepting acne and wrinkles as normal and speaking kindly to myself
7.) Being stressed over a missed workout → Honouring rest and allowing myself to slow down
8.)Needing to be happy every day→Allowing life to ebb and flow
10.) Overworking myself → Remembering to enjoy life and not take it all so seriously
At the end of your life, you’re not going to care about calories, how many wellness tools you owned, or the fact that you didn’t have perfect skin. You’re going to remember how it felt to live.
How present you were.
How much you laughed until your stomach hurt.
How kindly you spoke to yourself.
How fully you allowed yourself to be human.
Health is not something you earn by doing more. It’s not a look, a number, or a routine you finally get right. It’s a relationship, with your body, your mind, and your life.
And the healthiest thing you can do is stop trying to become someone else and start living in alignment with who you already are.
That is real health.
Incase no one has told you today, you are beautiful just the way you are <3
Xo.
Cass
P.S. (If you spot a spelling mistake, even with spellcheck, let’s call it character… it was written from the heart, not perfection)