03/11/2026
Jason an Army Veteran reached out to me late December.
He said " I don't know who I am anymore after taking orders since 18 years old and not knowing what to do with myself now."
He had turned to Drinking and senseless news watching making his anxiety and PTSD even worse.
I had to take a moment, a deep breath and then went on to reassure him, that majority of us don't know what to do with ourselves outside of the orders we're given.
He was confused for a moment and began to think deeper on it.
I stated "how many of us go to work daily for 8 hours or more, take orders from our superiors, come home and just turn on the television or doom scroll and distract ourselves from the lack of synchronization and harmonious pursuit we lack in our own existence?"
How many of us find "comfort in the discomfort" we feel from doing what we are told vs challenging our own beliefs about our lives?
I'm not going to blow this up too the scale of War and politics. As I stated to Jason.
I mean bring this smaller to an individual scale. Within the control we have within our own lives, during this current moment, right now.
One quote I love and shared with him "Whoever controls time, controls."
The world has been and will always be chaotic. Never will this stop because we are part of Nature. Our bodies will give us signs and pains and restlessness when we deny this truth.
To some seeing Jason lose this 40lbs, they will see it as a person that dropped unhealthy body fat. Yet from within the mind of him and conversations we have had together, I know he never will go back to accepting the beliefs about his life he had before. We still have 3 months to go as well.
Time passes by so fast, Covid was 6 years ago already. Some of us have only developed lessor behaviours and habits we wish to have while others have completely changed directions.
After 10+ years of coaching, it's become more and more clear, that the way we see ourselves and the identity we hold, the storyline we repeat why our life is the way it is, "IS" the actual difference between fulfillment and acceptance of our circumstances.