Big Rocks and LIttle Rocks: Navigating Terrain Shifts
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Failure, Success, Ongoing Learning, Travel, Shadow Boxing, Live in Color, Eat in Color, Priorities, Action over Inaction, Gratitude, Routine, Balance, Eat Plants, Unprocessed Plants Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Failure, Success, Ongoing Learning, Travel, Shadow Boxing, Live in Color, Eat in Color, Priorities, Action over Inaction, Gratitude, Routine, Balance, Eat Plants, Unprocessed Plants Tania Lyon

Big Rocks and LIttle Rocks: Navigating Terrain Shifts

Since I last wrote, a lot has changed in my life – as I anticipated it would. The changes are good, and I am grateful for that.

I have now started my new job, which has come with a lot of apprehensive excitement. A steep learning curve usurped my capacities for routine and for writing.

But, I am finding my way back, learning how to live my new life, facing myself over and over again in a whole new world.

I am starting to sleep just a little better as I am adjusting to everything. Sleep helps everything.

I am now pausing, taking stock in what it means to navigate my health and wellness through a major turning point in my life.

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Keeping My Footing in the Seas of Change
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Processed Foods, Failure, Success, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Ongoing Learning, Travel Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Processed Foods, Failure, Success, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Ongoing Learning, Travel Tania Lyon

Keeping My Footing in the Seas of Change

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

I am in the midst of change right now. A lot of it.

Since I last blogged, I retired from one career, traveled several places, and am on the edge of starting a new career. All of this is good.

Changes, even good ones, can be unsettling and upset the balance in my routines, in my life. These changes turned my foundation into a slippery slope – more than I expected.

To keep my footing, I have had to catch my balance several times in the past weeks. Catching my balance always means failure in some way.

I enjoy the beach much more at half my size. I feel younger, better, and more energetic than I ever have in my life, even though my age now gets me some senior discounts.

And, I have failed. More I than planned, and more than I would like to admit. Failure works that way.

But, failures are a natural part of the self-improvement process, the ongoing process of being me, of facing myself, of understanding the shadows that shape my life.

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Transforming My Shadows:  My Framework for Making and Sustaining Personal Changes
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Shadow Selves, Transform Shadows Framework, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Complex and Ongoing Process, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Shadow Selves, Transform Shadows Framework, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Complex and Ongoing Process, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge Tania Lyon

Transforming My Shadows:  My Framework for Making and Sustaining Personal Changes

Personal changes are hard to make – especially the changes that run counter to our human tendencies. Making these changes and sustaining them in my life are challenging processes.

When I decided to embark on a serious journey to improve my overall health, I knew I faced a 97% failure and 3% success rate for sustaining long-term weight loss.

I wanted to understand the roots of my failures. I wanted to learn from these failures in ways that led to the long-term successes that had eluded me all my life.

I am still learning to try to maintain long-term success. Doing that means understanding the blurry line between failures and successes where one is always part of the other.

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