In the final episode of our Holy Health Habits series, we explore the importance of journaling and gratitude as spiritual disciplines. These practices aren’t just about spiritual growth—they can also be transformative tools for your health and fitness journey. We’ll talk about how journaling helps you reflect, track progress, and build a growth mindset, while celebrating the small wins helps sustain your motivation and gratitude in both life and health.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

• The role of journaling in your spiritual and physical health, and how it mirrors tracking progress in fitness.
• Why celebration and gratitude are essential to maintaining joy, even when life gets hard.
• Practical ways to break down goals into manageable pieces and celebrate small wins to stay consistent.
• How to reframe obstacles and use them as learning opportunities for growth in your health journey.

This episode will help you connect the dots between spiritual disciplines and the practices that drive long-term fitness success. If you’re ready to adopt a sustainable, Christ-centered approach to health, this episode is for you.

Habits to build the skill of a growth mindset & reflecting: 

1. Think on a continuum
   1. Consider a choice you have to make often, write out or draw your continuum of options
   2. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, you can move up or down the continuum or dials
2. Reframe obstacles
   1. Failure is only feedback
   2. Get curious – flip problems into questions “I can’t meal prep. . . “ But if I can’t set aside the time to do this, what am I able to do? What would be helpful and help eliminate stress?

Building the habit of celebrating wins: 

1. Turn goals into small, bite-sized pieces
   1. Write out your goal, then break it down into various ways to achieve that goal
   2. Realize you can’t do ALL of those at once – choose 1-2 actions from that goal to practice until you are doing them 80% of the time
2. Reflect weekly and write down wins
   1. My clients really have a hard time doing this – they look back and they see ALL THE BAD and let that cloud the good – that goes back to journaling – if we are writing in our journals each day with the Lord that will naturally progress into naming small wins 
3. Track progress through a variety of means
   1. Consistently track your progress, through your dials, how your body feels, less stress, evaluating your deep health markers, etc.

Links mentioned in the podcast: 

• Join The Stronger Collective App: 7 Day Free Trial
• Learning How to Reframe Thoughts - Episode 36 with Jenn Louise