Rigid Rules can only Divide People

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Breaking rules just because you don’t like them is meaningless. And, there is no courage in continually challenging everything without cause. On the other hand, leaving a paradigm that limits you more than enables you is vital, in all aspects especially nutrition and performance.

Choosing to break the rules that confine you to one nutritional archetype such as carnivore, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, keto or pescitarian etc, and in such limit your goals and success - just make sense to me.

I salute those who invest the time in learning the rules and restraints of nutritional purest teachings in their particular dogmas and then search out the understandings of how breaking some of the rules in that doctrine may produce worthy outcomes for the individual. Before you decide to break the rule - I encourage you to reflect on the outcome of the decision and if the decision aligns with your individual bio-chemistry and targets.

Personally, I advocate for only starting a fire when the outcome is worthy of it.

I think we need to stop worshipping set in stone advice and commands and move beyond myths that have perhaps been dispelled and outdated for years, though public science has not yet caught up. Let’s break free of the label ‘rebel’ and ‘conformist’ and allow freedom with the boxes of nutritional models.

Have you broken the rules of a nutritional cult and benefited? Please share you success …

 
 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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