01/14/2026
What are you passionate about that has nothing to do with your health or healing journey? What makes you feel passion, delight, and joy?
Something I notice again and again is that when I ask my clients what they love or enjoy, what makes them fun or interesting, or what makes them feel relaxed or easeful, I get blank stares.
And on one hand it totally makes sense. These complex chronic health conditions can be completely debilitating. They can consume our lives. And healing from them is not simple. We spend hours every day, months at a time, engaging in practices and protocols that are supposed to heal us. And they don’t always work. It’s exhausting, it’s disheartening, and we become more and more of a shell- our identity wrapped up in our symptoms and treatments.
But the thing that kept me going to most during my healing journey were actually the things that had nothing to do with my “healing”, but brought me a sense of purpose and joy. And the more I focused on those things being the point of life, the more my illness didn’t consume me. It no longer mattered if I “healed” or not, because my life would still have purpose in decision to my patterns.
And ironically, this attitude made me heal more completely. I didn’t emphasize any less dedication to my diet or lifestyle changes, but I just carried them more lightly, and so they actually worked better.
So here are my top “non health related” practices (in no particular order).
1. MUSICALS
2. Archaeology
3. When my cats listen to records
4. Religion (devotional practice and prayer)
5. Stand up comedy
6. Awesome animal facts
What are yours? Comment below