A short spoken piece by Dr. Victoria Rose Veytsman describing her personal wellness journey. She emphasizes that the largest changes have come from mindset shifts—particularly discovering an "inner why" and a purpose beyond oneself—and argues that purpose-driven intentions allow people to achieve what once seemed impossible while self-serving intentions impose a ceiling. She also notes wellness involved physical and mindset elements and calls for grace in the process and responsibility that accompanies success.
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When our purpose and our why is beyond ourselves, that's when it's really possible to achieve the impossible. I've been on a wellness journey just like everyone else. I've always strived to reach my fullest potential. I've been through many phases of that, like we all have. I think it's really important to give ourselves some grace with the process. While I do believe that there can be quantum shifts, a lot of things just take time. My own wellness journey has also been physical, but mostly mindset journey. Especially in really defining and thinking about and tapping into my inner why. Our driving force behind things is the most important. When our purpose and our why is beyond ourselves, that's when it's really possible to achieve the impossible. When our intentions are self serving, there's really a ceiling to how far we go. When we have that shift and really tap into why we're doing what we do, tapping into something bigger than ourselves, everything around us seems to move. Things that perhaps seemed impossible before become within reach. If I were to summarize my own wellness journey, I would say that the biggest shifts for me have really come from shifts in my mindset and how I think about things and really having a grander vision for my life beyond what I need to do for myself. Any level of success comes a certain level of responsibility that we need to tap into.