ACTIVE ADAPTATION

What is Active Adaptation you ask?! Well it’s a term I created to describe a process where you are taking firm action to make positive change while considering the changing nature of your environment or present circumstance. Active Adaptation is also a play on words: taking action to change, or changing your activity. For example, you can be adapting your exercise/fitness program to aim for the same overall goals (e.g. feeling and looking good, living longer etc.) while adapting to the current pandemic environment within the safety guidelines right now, such as finding new innovative workouts that maintain social distancing or like working out from home. However, active adaptation is also about taking action to change other aspects of your life. Living now is different than it was before this pandemic. What conscious choices have you made to change to support yourself and others in this current time? When I ask people this the response is usually “I haven’t made many conscious choices”. People can be winging it or just doing their best to make it through the day every day.

When COVID-19 spread it was devastating and a shock to most of us. Everything changed overnight and the rules were constantly changing (and still are). Many people went into survival mode: buying lots of groceries without thinking about the quality, drinking more alcohol, exercising less, and all while building more and more stress. Most people were working from home or working in new different…