Eating disorders go in many directions. If you are ignoring your body\u2019s hunger cues and eating foods that generally\u00a0make your body feel bad, you are not doing yourself a service as far as pursuing your best day.<\/p>\n

So yesterday was a day filled with poor choices? (Or maybe your life up to now has been?) So what. I can tell you from personal experience that our bodies are more regenerative than we often think and that effective change happens when you take baby steps, not running leaps. (You know, the old tortoise and the hare story.)<\/p>\n

I look out the window and notice that the sky is definitely a brighter shade of grey. The looming, unforecasted rain casts a heaviness that I feel in my bones. (Literally, even my once-broken bones feel this weight.)\u00a0I decide to let the mysterious melancholy that I feel wash over me and through me, rather than turning away from it.<\/p>\n

I get up to make my coffee and I look forward to feeling its smooth, velvety texture roll over my tongue.<\/p>\n

I breathe and feel my chest expand with air.<\/p>\n

I dreamt in black and white last night\u2014I always do. I dream in shades of grey.<\/p>\n

This makes me aware that life is a spectrum and not two distinct colors. I want to see each shade for what they are, because that\u2019s living my life\u2014that\u2019s being authentic and this truth and clarity make each day my best.<\/em><\/p>\n

I sit with my loneliness and my own inner shades of grey because I know that living from this place allows me to move towards the end of the spectrum that I choose.<\/p>\n

I believe that life is a choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t always choose our circumstances and we might learn to shape and transform our feelings and thoughts through effort, but we still have to own up to our almost primal and instinctual reactions.<\/p>\n

So you want to live your best day? Then be you. Feel you. Live every day right where you are.<\/p>\n