The Well-Being Trifecta

Balance your mind, body, and spirit.

- Cassandra Bodzak

It’s all the same. Self-love, body acceptance, eating properly, listening to your intuition, and fueling and caring for both your physical and your spiritual self are all part of the whole. Food, meditation, and self-care are all essential components of this whole, so we need to embrace all of them if we want to look, feel, and live our best in this lifetime.

I want you to really let this sink in. I call this our “well-being trifecta,” and it incorporates self-care, food, and meditation as a sacred triangle anchoring the best version of you. They are inseparable and you should honor and utilize all three of them collectively to fully tap into their individual powers.

SELF - CARE

When I was very young, I became ill and went from playing street hockey and soccer to barely being able to get off the couch. It was terrifying—I didn’t know what was wrong with me, but it suddenly felt as though life was being sucked out of me. The doctors finally concluded that I had mononucleosis and that it needed to run its course. I was sent home and instructed to sleep and drink plenty of fluids, and so I did.

Since then, I’ve developed profound awareness of my energy levels, which is something that I don’t think a lot of children think about. I witnessed firsthand the healing power of listening to your body, allowing it to sleep, and giving it the fluids it needs to thrive. It was about three months of doctor visits and various medications, and the best thing they ever did was to just take me off of all of it and let me sleep. That experience taught me that I needed more sleep than most people and when I ignored my body’s signals for rest, my body would shut down on me.