Michelle Lauren

20/07/2020

My birthday just happens to land on this special day. Set an intention for the month, let go of what no longer serves you.

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13/01/2020

NEW BLOG POST🦄⁠
You know those people that you encounter that seem so happy and well-adjusted to life, that have a sense of bewonderment and enthusiasm about their reality? You know the ones I speak of? Maybe you are one…but I can promise if you’re not they f**k your mind on the regular. I know they did mine until I became one, well most of the time because let’s face it life is not linear in how we experience it emotionally. Do you know what the common thread is for those folks? They believe, have faith, invest in hope, practice gratitude and most of all they practice this more often than not. Without these traits and behaviors, we cannot endure the dark side of life without becoming overburdened, de-energized, overwhelmed, pessimistic and most of all hopeless. Basically, I am telling you that without actual evidence from past experience you must believe in the Unicorn. She exists dammit, even if you have never seen her with your own eyes. You must believe if you want to experience the light that life has to offer. ⁠.
click here for full post - https://mllivewell.com/2020/01/13/actual-wellness-in-an-anxious-society/ -1201

08/01/2020

In an anxious world, we are conditions to respond to our fears, traumas and majorly stressful circumstance in a certain way. With a major part of the world's population experiencing chronic stress and PTSD it is only natural that I feel I should talk about this. However, you have experienced your stress and trauma one thing is certain as indicated in today's research of the effects of either on the brain and nervous system are the same. When we feel under threat our body releases specific hormones that result in a flight or freeze response. Basically whatever has triggered you to feel stressed or traumatized our body experiences it as if we are being hunted by a bear in the wild. This creates all kinds of bad news for our central nervous system, our brain and in turn our physical and emotional. When you are in a state of fight-flight or freeze you're are in survival mode not an ideal space for thriving.

The next challenge is to consider the fact that most people lead very stressful lives in today's fast-paced society. Technology has made things fast-paced and the expectations of capitalisms supply and demand have really given us the run for your life response by habit. It has been my experience that it is difficult to convince folks that they are overburdened because it is the norm. It is what everyone is doing. Nobody can imagine life any-other-way.

Now that you have considered the obvious not-so-obvious. I challenge you to take on a rest and repair practice as an experimental approach to alleviating your survival approach to life. Proved some open space for thriving opportunities. Some ways to rest and repair might include but certainly are not limited to:

-Taking a nap
-Reading a book
-Spending time with family or friends when you would normally be finding a way to overwork yourself
-Saying no to engagements that otherwise deplete you of your energy
-Time in nature
-Taking the time to create
-Spiritual practices
-Eating a healthy meal with loved ones
-A hot date with your partner

What are some of your rest and repair practices? When is the last time you made space for thriving?

07/01/2020

WHAT IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACT IN THE NAME OF LOVE AND NOT FEAR?!❤😱
Finding peace is something that we all crave and ultimately something we need to be healthy and thriving. It's 2020 and I really believe that too many of us are just surviving as it appears to be safe and helps us maintain the comforts of remaining stagnant and the status-quo. Many people talk about love as this thing that eludes them and seems to be unattainable. I talk often about being brave, courageous, vulnerable, and open so that we might have an opportunity to experience love...the opposite of fear. So many of us have big emotions that we don't want to experience again and subconsciously we avoid at all costs even our own contentment. I am here to call you out and dare you to show up for yourself differently this new year. What if you chose to behave differently? What if you choose to act in the name of love not fear? Do you think you might have the chance to achieve some of the dreams you have been putting off?
Double tap if you choose to act in the name of love and not fear, and hit the SAVE icon so you can refer back to it later if you fall off the wagon!

05/01/2020

2020 has arrived and for some, our goals may seem huge. You may have been taken down the path of page after page of fitness goals, dietary goals, fatphobia and much more on the latest MLM plan but one thing is certain you want to start the year off the right way.

Some might say that New Year's resolutions are as bogus as the idea of sasquatch himself...although I personally would like to believe he exists. I think that you can choose to change your life, habits, patterns, thoughts, and ideas at any time of the year. However, there is a special energy that can be seized early in a new year if you wish to take that route.

I want to share with you how easy it is to become the victim of a marketing ploy that plays on our biggest insecurities and often leaves us broke, further behind in our goals and with a metabolism that is not functioning in our favor. I also want to say that you shouldn't feel ashamed or spend one minute worrying if you have fallen into this trap. I have fallen hard for this pile of horse s**t in the past and that's why I feel compelled to speak about it here.

Multi-level-marketing...oh how you have plagued our Insta feeds and turned some of our closest friends into marketing stalkers that use our "friendship" for recruitment opportunities and change our friends before our eyes. On top of that, you send a message that in order to live my "best life" like those women I see on my feed I have to drink your shakes, take your pre-workout and supplements, participate in your workout videos and use your one-size-fits-all meal planning and I too will be skinny, fit, in love, on the best vacations, have the hetero marriage you tell me I should dream of (because really I don't see it appealing to the LGBT community at all) work from home and live in a castle oh and have the perfect children.

The fact of the matter is that each and every one of us has our own story related to stressors, diets, food intolerances, medical conditions, ethnic background, goals, intimate partnerships, spiritual practice, friendships, careers, family life and taking health advice from a troll who has sacrificed their financial status to promote a huge MLM corporation has its risks. The risks are to your mental, physical, spiritual, relational and professional health because nothing in life should be considered in isolation we are complex individuals that require a holistic approach.

I am sure my words will be taken harshly by some but if I can offer to any of you some advice it would be this. Get clear with yourself about what you want to accomplish. Is it good health, weight loss, partnership, a new career, family life, a new hobby, community or anything else you can think of? From there ask yourself if you need support getting there how can you do that from a place of wellness, total acceptance of who you are now and whom you want to be later? I promise you that you will better be served to learn about what is causing your stress, addressing the difficult relationships in your life, discovering what foods are good for you as an individual, identifying and addressing any health conditions you may have, incorporating spiritual and emotional health practices that last and most of all becoming self-aware. No MLM, shake, body shaming or Insta life promo will accomplish what you wish to accomplish for the long term.

So Michelle...what this s**t should I do then??? Invest some time in finding the support of someone that meets your goal, maybe a career coach, a psychologist, a nutritionist, a Chinese medicine doctor...someone who has the experience and knowledge to support you in your journey to meeting your specific goals. Someone who paid a start-up cost to get a reduced rate on their shakes and continue the Insta mania might be what you are looking for but I highly doubt it.

For this next decade, I wish you loads of self-love, self-determination, support, health, wellness, and success. And a great big f**k off to anyone making money off of your insecurities that deliver nothing but messed up metabolisms, skewed body image, and a financial loss...

04/01/2020

27/12/2019

I don’t know what will happen to us or where we are headed but what I do know is I can identify what love is instead of what it is not and I can show up for myself in ways I was too afraid to even try to in the past. ⁠⁠
For full blog post click here https://mllivewell.com/2019/12/27/the-magic-of-love-is-an-action/ -1039 and if you liked this post hit the ❤.⁠

04/12/2019

Overcoming abuse and experiencing it have been major contributors in shaping who I have become today. It is my intention to share my story to help others understand, and hopefully overcome their own abusive circumstances.
Starting a dialogue about abuse is the first step. Abuse thrives in silence. In a lot of cases, we are not safe to talk about it and I encourage you to take care of your safety first. I want you to know that I see you.
Check out the link in my bio about an opportunity I was given to escape my circumstance.
@ Quebec

02/12/2019

Abusive environments and experiences shaped who I became. I was able to overcome this adversity once ending it; it is an opportunity offered to very few people.

By noticing how I reacted to current situations that seemed to make me feel similarly the same way in the past when being abused it had a great impact on the changes I wanted so badly in my life.

I wanted to start my intro to my audience by sharing my story and exposing abuse. I want to normalize the discussions that should be had about it so that ending cycles can be possible and those living under its rule can be free...one person at a time.

In my blog, I talk about the opportunity that French Quebec provides me to end abuse. Check-out the link in my bio.

10/08/2019

https://mllivewell.com/2019/04/28/home-is-where-you-can-take-your-pants-off/

It’s been a while since the spring of 2017 has come and gone. This was a time in my life I will never forget. A time that I tell the people around me I almost died of unhappiness and despair. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, simultaneously, like the atom bomb of life’s …