“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
Jim Rohn
Some of us track sleep and count macros. Some of us haven't been to the gym since 2019. Whatever our relationship with health, the body is always sending signals – modern life just makes them easy to miss.
We were built to move, eat real food and sleep when it got dark. Today we sit for hours and eat food engineered to keep us coming back for more.
We also optimise more than ever - track our Oura scores, measure our macros, log sleep cycles. But when we're too focused on the numbers, we miss the quieter signals – the headache that's been there for days, or the tiredness we keep pushing through.
Health is ultimately about tuning back in and giving your body what it actually needs.
Are you listening to your body, or tracking it?
G O I N G D E E P E R
Psychology
Interoception is your ability to sense what’s happening inside your body – hunger, energy, tension, temperature, subtle shifts in how you feel. When life gets busy, we lose touch with these signals, and small needs go unnoticed until they become bigger issues.
Inside the body
Our body is always working to maintain and get back to homeostasis – its natural balance. The more closely we listen and respond to our body’s feedback that something is out of sync, the healthier and better we feel.
Did you know?
Allostatic load is the cumulative wear and tear on the body from repeated micro-stress – the little hits your body absorbs all day. Even when each one is tiny, together they can disrupt sleep, mood, weight and long-term health.
At work
Your body runs on a daily ‘energy budget’, and work draws on it more than we realise; every ping, meeting and decision uses it up. If we don’t protect that biological fuel, the steady rhythm of demands can leave us feeling drained by the end of the day.