The 'S' Factor(s) in Our Lives

As much as I’d love for some nutrition fine-tuning to be the Cure All for our health woes, I’d be a goofball to advocate that kind of message to you.

Yes, yes… nutrition matters and I make a profession around improving the nutrition aspect of people’s lives…but you can choose to not give a dang and that is your right.

But there are other ways to give an eye to health, wellness, and kickassery.

Enter my current 10 “S Factors”:

  • Sleep: Quality, duration, honoring its restorative power.

  • Stress: There is “healthy” stress and there is batshit-crazy stress. Whatcha got?

  • Strength: Literally. I know that when I’m 80 years old, I want to be able to carry my own damn groceries. How ‘bout you?

  • Sunlight: Not only for the vitamin D thingy (which relates to numerous aspects of health), but for circadian rhythm (which relates to numerous aspects of health!).

  • Steps: Daily movement aside from purposeful exercise.

  • Snacking: It is not evil, yet we can learn a lot about ourselves when we take a peek at what, why, when.

  • Screen Time: How much time are you spending daily staring at your devices and tech?

  • Support System: As much as some of us would like to think we can go it all alone and be content in the world without a strong support system, it ain’t so. That is not a part of our species and evolution.

  • Smiles: I used to cringe as a kid when an adult would command me to “SMILE!” but now as an adult, I can see and feel the immense power of smiling (and giggling) and I miss seeing friends & strangers’ smiles (even though they may be behind the mask).

  • Shake-it-Upness: We may have gotten into some rutty ruts DTC (due to COVID-19), but we all need some zing-zang periodically to keep our brains from turning to Swiss cheese.

What resonates with you? What other S factors would you add? :)

Thanks for reading,
Dina