My body threw so many full-on temper tantrums for many years. 🙅🏽♀️
It started with a splitting headaches 🤕 that felt like tiny leprechauns were river-dancing on my brain. Then came the shoulder knots that felt like they were twisted into pretzels by an angry baker. My stomach decided to join the protest party too. 😒
Each time this happened, which was practically ALL…OF….THE…TIME, I did what any reasonable business owner would do – ignored it completely. I kept telling myself it was just stress, a bad pillow on my bed or maybe too much green tea 🍵(is there such a thing?). Because obviously more green tea fixes everything, right?
❌ But my body wasn’t having any of my excuses. ❌
It finally hit me during a client call when I completely blanked on something I’d done hundreds of times. I couldn’t remember how to do something that I had a million times. I wondered what the heck was wrong with me! My body was screaming what my mind wouldn’t admit – I had drifted way off course from my values and why I started my business in the first place!
I’d been saying yes to projects that didn’t light me up. In all honesty, I HATED them but said yes to taking them on…for the money…and because I didn’t want to disappoint my clients. I started taking calls during my sacred sleep-in late mornings. I was always putting everyone else’s ’emergencies’ before my own wellbeing and wants. . . treating other people’s “emergencies” like they were more important than my sanity. WTH?
There was this one time, I was doing ’emergency’ work for a client while I was trying to cook dinner, spend time with my kids, and pack before I left for my flight early in the morning. I was being very short with the kids. Let’s just say, my family was NOT happy with me, nor was I happy with myself. I actually prioritized this so called ’emergency’ instead of spending time with my family before I left home for 4 days. I am not proud of this.😩 Can you relate?
Here’s the truth bomb: Your body is like that brutally honest friend who tells you when those pants actually do make your butt look big. 😜
It knows when you’re BS-ing yourself. When you’re living out of alignment. When you’re trying to force-fit yourself into someone else’s business model. They know when we’re living out of alignment with our values.
Real talk – do you even know your values? Seriously, have you ever sat down and wrote down your values? Are you living in alignment with those values?
For me, I ‘knew’ my values…loosely.
Then my business coach at the time asked me if I was living and running my business in alignment with my values. The answer, was a bit fat, NOPE.
And let me tell you – trying to run a business while ignoring these signals and being out of alignment with your values, is like trying to drive with your eyes closed. Sure, you might get somewhere, but probably not where you wanted to go. (or alive for that matter)
That’s exactly why I created the Life & Business Alignment Harmony Strategy Intensive. Because sometimes we need help translating what our body is trying to tell us about our business. Ready to stop fighting your body and start working with it instead?
Living in alignment,
Jeanette “my body’s smarter than me” Ortega
P.S. Your body already knows if this is right for you. Maybe it’s time to start listening to it?
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Feel free to leave a comment below if you have any questions, thoughts, or experiences you’d like to share—I’d love to hear from you!
