“Acknowledge how you feel after completing your new habits as well and celebrate placing your needs first. Allow your positive feelings to be the core energy to keep you moving forward with your new habits and rituals. Your body can tell you all it needs when we allow the space to connect with it,” she says.

2. Re-frame what health is

“Our ideas of health have been completely skewed, leading us to believe that a healthy body is a body that has a certain aesthetic. And for people to be able to achieve that idea of health it often involves doing really unhealthy behaviours,” says Victoria Spence, a female confidence coach. “We need to kind of detach this belief that health, body size and body shape have anything to do with each other.”

“Actual health, being more healthy as a person, both physically and mentally, comes from having nutritionally dense meals, moving your body in a way you love and are excited to do and opening up space to explore different things in life, like creating a business, travelling, having an amazing time with friends.”

True health: what listening to your body really means and how to do it, according to wellness coaches