To ask what changed your life dramatically for the better?

[youneeQuorn]

Did you find something that just changed life for you?

Be it yoga, meditation, religion, medication, therapy, a new hobby - that sort of thing

Being ditched by a crap husband and then finding a much better new one!

Started lifting weights; improved a problem with my back which was beginning to suck the life out of me.

Learning to drive. I can go anywhere I want!

Inspired by another thread but the Mirena coil. No more period, no anaemia, it's bin fantastic.

Giving up alcohol 22 years ago, I saved my own life.

I've been obsessed with all things aquatic since childhood. Dragged my unwilling family around aquariums, painted fishy artworks, read loads of books. I finally took the plunge (as it were) last year and have my own aquarium, it's so very beautiful! My fish are colourful, bizarre, endearing; it's like having a glass box full of mini unicorns.

A random conversation with a friend. All she said was "You can forgive someone without them asking for forgiveness and Reiki - it really did change my life.

Starting my own business
Giving up caring if my arse is too big
Running
Putting myself first a bit more.
Giving up alcohol

Miracle morning!

What's Miracle morning!?

Hi sorry - miracle morning is getting up really early before everyone else, writing down all the thoughts in your head, then writing down what you're grateful for and then writing down what you would like to achieve for the day. Then you do ten minutes of mindfulness, then read a chapter of a self help book. You then go on a walk for half an hour and come back and have a shower and breakfast.
It helps clear your head and get you set up for the day. Some have found it life changing. I find it helps to get rid of obsessive thoughts and realign my head and my priorities. There's a book called 'the miracle morning' which explains more.

Giving up wheat
Yoga..I do it every day and it is healing me. Therapy. Tons and tons of therapy.
Making the decision to never go "home" again.
Ditching toxic people.
Learning not to give a fuck about other people.
Learning (and this is in progress) to embrace my diagnosis as part of me.

Peace. :-)

Thanks... I might look into it

Losing weight (6 stone) by low carbing. Got my confidence back, realised ex-DH really didn't like me at all and not just because I'd gotten fat. Split up with him, got new job and career, remarried. People treat you so differently when you are slimmer, dress in normal (non-oversized baggy hide-me) clothes, and when you are confident. Totally life changing.

Sertraline for anxiety. I didn't realise how much pointless 'chatter' there was in my head until it stopped.

Cutting off a toxic friend
Having DD
Reading How To Get The Life You Love by Phil Parker - I didn't even finish it, just the first couple of chapters made a difference.

Some great ideas on this thread, must keep it to hand. I like how it is not always the obvious things but the small, more unusual things people bring up.

My faith in God.

Writing a novel.

My dh and dc.

Realising that my value does not come from what I do.

This thread. Has sparked something in me. I'm not trash. I'm not useless. I'm not pathetic. I just feel too much

My three fab kids who are fab in spite of me, not because.

my overall health is great despite my self-sabotage

I am looking forward to turning my life around!

PLease can this be nominated for Classics?

sleep training my children

Emigrating

Taking up women's football

Obvs DH and DC's but the other things are:

Moving. Was living in a shitty council house on a shitty council estate (think early morning drugs raids, eggs thrown at houses inc my own, nasty comments being made to us - and other families too) where I was starting to develop agoraphobia and often had panic attacks if I needed to leave the house. Now live in a small village in the countyside. No buses, school had 25 children in last year so has now joined another school, our neighbours across the road is a bunch of cows (the mooing type, not horrible people type). Best thing I ever did. Oh its still a council house so Im not dissing council houses, but the last street I lived on was the kind of street where even people who were born and raised in the same area did not want to live down the street.

Running. It was my 4th attempt at getting into it and I finally managed it. Doing GNR this year and do lots of 10Ks throughout the year.

Im hoping the next thing will be my new love of strength training. I plan to quit running for 6 months + after GNR to concentrate on muscle growth. I have just started going to boot camp classes and on Friday Im having my first PT session which will be all about weights and strength.

So many inspirational posts on this thread. I hope to use some of them myself for future life changing moments.

Giving up my career as a solicitor for a minimum wage job.

Having children.

Breastfeeding. It was lovely and did nice hormonal things that suppressed my anxiety levels enough for me to cure myself of a phobia.

Crossfit.

Oh, and bullet journals. Not the fancy pretty sort, but as a basic organisational tool.

Acupuncture. I used to have migraines 2-3 times a month now they have gone.

*sleep training my children
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Oh me too, me too!

I am midway through a course of Roaccutane and hoping that will be life changing once done (haven't left the house without make up for 20+ years)

jasper may I ask what your new job is? (solicitor here)

Getting cancer, it's incurable and being told you will die changed me forever. It gave me a massive reality check about the life I was living, working to hard, not caring about myself.
I'm now a hugely positive person, my life has changed dramatically. I've ditched toxic people etc and live a "life is to short" kind of life. I'm the happiest I've ever been, such a shame it took this to make me realise what I was doing to myself!