If I could go back and give myself one piece of health advice, it wouldn’t be about food or exercise or sleep. It would be this: be kinder to yourself. For years, self-criticism was the engine I used to try to improve, and it turns out that engine mostly ran…
I spent a long time thinking of health as a solo project — my diet, my workouts, my sleep. It took me a while to realize that one of the most powerful things for my wellbeing had nothing to do with any of that. It was other people. There’s a…