Live Your Purpose, On Purpose

Shades of Health • • • On Purpose Live Your Purpose

Shades of Health is not a topic, it’s a lifestyle that connects us to us.

This month’s topics focuses on Empowering & Possibilities which is why I thought it was appropriate to talk about our mental health and what we do as individuals to take care of ourselves. For years as I child, I heard you have to take care of yourself, eat right, drink plenty of water, and go to the gym so that you can be healthy and live a great life. Since most of the focus was on my physical, I never really paid attention to my mental.

For some odd reason, nobody talked about keeping my mental health intact and how important it was going to be for me to learn how to manage stress and balance the day to day of being a mom, grandma, a divorced woman at the age of fifty-two, a community advocate, health navigator and certified life coach, writer, and speaker. And the list goes on and on. I’m sure many of you have the same kind of responsibilities if not more. I have a question for us—busy, always-onthe-go individuals, always caring for others with a smile, working countless hours to fulfill company’s obligation, rushing to appointments, and always apologizing for being a few minutes late etc.

What have we done for ourselves mentally to become a better and healthier version of ourselves? Have we realized that we are just as important as everyone else and all our obligations? It’s time to activate our HealthCare Power and sincerely put in the work to become who our creator has created us to be without apology or compromise. It’s time to reconnect to our purpose, slow down and enjoy the rest of life with purpose for purpose. Now! I may be the only woman that has felt like they missed their purpose a time or two because of some unhealthy decisions, relationships, jobs etc.

Knowing your purpose adds focus to your life and gives you permission to say “No” to everything that has been keeping you too busy, fatigued and mentally and emotionally drained. I’m encouraging you to reconnect to your dreams and say “Yes” to the Shade of Health that keeps you cool, calm and mentally happy.

Our attitudes and how we learn to positively look at things is what shifts us from traumas to triumphs.

 Shades of Health written to educate, empower and encourage individuals to become a better version of themselves mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and physically.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Well-being is the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

Tarnesa D. Martin, RN, BSN AKA “Nurse T” Community Advocate, Health Navigator, Certified Life Coach, Writer, Speaker, Founder of Women of Radical Praise

tarnesamartin@outlook.com, 810.579.6550