How Choice Shapes Your Wellness Journey

Choose your hard. Life is hard. It’s all hard. So choose the hard that gives you the most fulfilled parts of yourself. Be so in tune with what you want your life to be, that the choices feel reaffirming, not daunting. 

It’s easy to forget that you have been doing hard things your whole life. While reflecting with my dad about my decision to move to a Greek island, I asked my dad if he believed that I was really going to do it. His response:

“I’ve seen you do hard things.”

I think about this statement often, as a reminder to carry the memory of all the hard things that I’ve done as I shape my wellness journey. Moving to a Greek island may not be your ‘hard,’ but a path all your own is out there for you. 

When your wellness journey is in a direction of your choosing–full of intention and belief in yourself–the tasks feel like stepping stones instead of speed bumps. Only you can define what wellness means to you; when’s the last time you sat down and thought about it? Not in terms of exercise habits you’re not doing, or that list of recipes that you’re not making, but truly asking yourself, “what do I need to be well?”

The small choices that you make every day create the life that you’re living and modeling.  A Nurse Coach co-creates space for clarity, confidence, and calm—empowering you to reconnect with your goals and make meaningful, lasting choices that support the life you want to lead. 

The Role of Choice in Wellness

Wellness now feels like a list of things you report off to your primary care provider once a year. The list of things you haven’t changed is much longer than the list of things that you are happy to talk about. You leave these appointments feeling like you’re missing something…and you’re right! 

Wellness is all encompassing, comprising much more than our weight, sleep habits, or exercise routines. Conversations about how to connect your health to your wellness are what you’re craving–”I’m doing all of these things, but why do I still feel this way. I guess I don’t have a choice.” We all need more from those 15 minute appointments, but the healthcare system makes time for your symptoms, not the rest of you.

Making intentional choices in all areas of your wellness aligns you with your own version of health and happiness. Wellness isn’t a giant leap–it’s a foundation that sets you up for life. Think about:

• Where do you find joy and satisfaction?

• What does your medical and physical health allow you to do? What would you like to be able to do?

• How are you showing up for your mental, emotional, and spiritual health?

• How do your surroundings make you feel?

• What does your community look like? Do you lean on your support system? How are your relationships and friendships? 

• What financial goals allow you to live a life of freedom? What is your relationship with money?

• What do you want to do with your time? What does work look like? How do you feel when you’re at your job?

• Where have you been ignoring your intimacy needs?  

  
  

The Nurse Coach Lens

You deserve the space to breathe and reconnect with who you truly are. You deserve the clarity to choose your own path, the strength to grow into your best self, and the confidence to define wellness on your own terms. I’m here to make space for:

• the quiet power of presence

• the life-changing impact of one honest moment

• the ripple effects of a single, intentional choice that aligns with your true self

  
  

My work is about co-creating a space where you feel safe enough to hope again, supported enough to heal, and present enough to choose the well version of yourself. We don’t begin with what’s broken. We begin with what’s still shining—no matter how small—and let that light guide the self-led path forward.

Permission to Choose Differently

The only permission that you need to choose differently is your own–an agreement with yourself to let go of the things that don’t align with your definition of wellness and invite the things that do. Give less and less attention to the things that you feel you ‘should’ be doing, and spend more time doing the things that you want to do.

Remember, choose the hard that gets you to where you want to be. 

Sometimes you’ll choose to make the ‘should’ choice, but it will be a decision made from clarity, connection, and purpose. Your choices are no longer rooted in feelings of fear or guilt when you believe that it’s okay to choose what’s best for you. 

What’s one small choice that you can make today that brings you closer to how you want to feel? What seems out of reach, but is truly what you want? Choice is your most powerful wellness tool.