We are worthy of feeling good.
We are worthy of surrounding ourselves with people who support us.
When I decided to set a goal for myself at the beginning of 2022, I knew that I had to somehow incorporate accountability into it. Otherwise, I could easily just quit when I didn’t feel like doing it, and no one would know any better. I remember a friend of mine had made the comment that there is nothing better than social media accountability and so I decided to use my IG as a way of tracking my movement goals. I never shared my actual goal. I just started holding myself accountable by sharing. It wasn’t for anyone other than myself. Funny enough, almost immediately I felt so much support from the community.
Women were writing to me to let me know that what I was sharing was inspiring them to get back into or start a movement practice as well. They were finding my accountability check-ins the little push to go out and do what they knew would make them feel good too. I started this movement practice to feel good, but it felt even better that other people were finding value in it as well as feeling good themselves.
When I feel good in my body, I show up for myself in an entirely different way. I feel strong, capable, and confident. I am able to set boundaries more easily. I am able to have more difficult but important conversations. I am able to be a better friend, lover, colleague, daughter, and overall human. I am a 46-year-old woman who, on a daily basis, is surrounded by people fighting for their lives due to illness. I am acutely aware of how short this life can be. I am acutely aware that everything can change with one lab result, one diagnosis, and one phone call from a doctor. I see how hard illness can be on our bodies, minds, and spirit. And I am aware that we get one shot at this life, so why not make it feel as good as possible?
So hell yes I am absolutely unapologetic when it comes to the way I live my life and doing the things that feel good!
Every single day I wake up with the privilege of choice. I honor and recognize this privilege. Not everyone has the luxury to do the things that make them feel good. So as long as I am in a free and capable body, I have no reason NOT to live my life this way. It is not always easy. In fact, I am very transparent in how much resistance I face some days when it comes to these choices I want to make, as well as when I do let it slip by. Now I don’t shame myself for missing a day here and there because I believe in the power of rest. But most days, I have the time, ability, and capability to move my body in some way.
They say that we are the sum of the five people we are surrounded by most. This is equally cool and scary. I didn’t always have boundaries around my relationships. From middle school to my 20s, my friends were typically who I was geographically surrounded by. Even into my 30s I was pretty closed off to new relationships and just stayed in all the friendships that were familiar to me, even if they were less than inspiring and unsupportive of growth.
It wasn’t until I quit drinking that I started looking closer at all my relationships and realized I needed to remove myself from certain situations as well as recognize the relationships I needed and wanted to nourish more. I also took responsibility and became an active participant in creating new friendships. Sometimes this is not always possible. I know that some people just don’t have friendships that are supportive, loving, and inspiring, and there are not a lot of other options, or they don’t feel worthy of having these types of relationships for whatever reason. I am sure there is a plethora of reasons why we get stuck in these less than stellar relationships.
Who are you surrounded by? Are you free to be curious and grow? Are your people inspiring and happy to be inspired? Do your people support you and honor who you are and/or want to become?
This here is the beauty of having an outlet for like-minded beings. People who are here to support and share and love up one another. I know there are hundreds of you here as paying subscribers to the Feel Good Studio and thousands of you on this newsletter list. I would like to offer you all a place to go where you can find inspiration from others as well as share your successes without fear of being ridiculed for wanting to live a life that FEELS GOOD, no matter what that looks like.
I myself am subscribed to some beautiful substack communities, and I have seen some wonderful ways people are using this platform. One of the ways is the use of THREADS. This is like one big private group chat for us all.
I am offering threads for the Feel Good Studio because:
I want you to have a place where you can share your wins!
I want you to have a place where you can have accountability.
I want you to have a place to go and see other women encouraging one another.
I want this place to be the anti-sister wound (if you watched my Q&A video).
I want this place to be a check-in of sorts for anything that makes you FEEL GOOD or makes you feel proud.
A safe and private space. Only members are allowed to interact with one another.
A place to be lifted, rather than judged or invited to stay small.
Below paid subscribers will be able to access the private group conversations.
Also, I would like to say thank you to all the people who are helping create this community off of the socials. With my gratitude, I am gifting all paid subscribers an opportunity to gift a friend with a 3-month free subscription to the Feel Good Studio. If you are finding value here, let’s share it with someone who may need it as well.
XX,
Mia