Home is where the bad habits are.
If you’ve come around to the notion of thriving health in your adulthood like I have, your family time and family environment come with all sorts of baked in and less than healthy associations.
I know it’s not just me because I can’t tell you how many client conversations have taken place on this subject. Home is where you can expect to find the exact special box of cereal and/or bagels in the morning. Home is where you have a family tradition of ordering out for Chinese food (and it’s not the steamed stuff either). Home is where you open the fridge to find that ridiculously nostalgic ice cream brand staring back at you and a double sized bowl to put it in. These things are like clockwork. They are ingrained. They are unavoidable.
You have two options: embrace the hell out of it or impose a different plan. Continue Reading