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A practical spring reset: eat, sleep and poop

I’ve been taking yoga for years, and recently I realized I had almost completely missed the point.

At the end of class, we are often guided to gently roll onto one side before sitting up again. I always thought it was a little silly. Why not just sit up?

But then an instructor explained that savasana is corpse pose, you are lying “dead.” The side-lying position represents the fetal position. And when we rise to sit again, it symbolizes rebirth.

I loved that.

Maybe I loved it even more because it happened to be an outdoor yoga class. After a sprinkle of rain, a rainbow appeared as if on cue.

Maybe it stayed with me because so many of us are craving a chance to begin again.

Maybe because it’s spring.

Let’s choose to start again.

I think we often make starting again much harder than it needs to be.

We imagine a dramatic reinvention, a better routine, a more optimized life, a cleaner calendar, a prettier system. 

Before you reach for your label maker, let me offer you this: maybe what we need is much simpler than all of that.

Speaking of rebirth, let’s talk about babies.

Babies, for all their mystery, are actually pretty simple creatures. They are deeply committed to a few very basic things:

eat, sleep and poop.

I have to believe there is wisdom in the simplicity of that (and not just for new parents).

Because a healthy life — and maybe a healthy spring reset too — is built on a few simple rhythms:

✨ Taking in what nourishes.

✨ Restoring what’s depleted.

✨ Releasing what isn’t needed.

So consider that the invitation this season. Not to become an entirely new person, just to come back to the basics.

Eat

A lot of us are walking around undernourished in one way or another. Maybe not literally starving, but underfed where it counts: real food, water, enough steadiness to support an actual human body.

We tend to make eating either overly complicated or weirdly optional. Measure everything (except when we don’t) or eat nothing and then wonder why we feel foggy, irritable or off.

But “simple” doesn’t have to mean restrictive, perfect or joyless. (General note: I will never tell you anything should be joyless, never ever.)

Simple means supportive.

Simple eating can look like a few repeatable breakfasts. A lunch you don’t have to overthink. A dinner that is nourishing enough to become a default. Water before 3 p.m. Protein without drama. Food that makes you feel more like yourself, not less.

For more simple guidelines on eating to nourish you can read my article series: How to Eat.

And maybe this applies beyond food, too.

✨ What are you taking in right now? What are you feeding your body, your mind, your nervous system?

Because not everything available to you is nourishing.

One more time:

Not everything available to you is nourishing.

Not every opinion needs access to you. Not every headline deserves your attention. Not every piece of content is helping you feel more grounded, clear or alive.

Simplicity begins with being more discerning about what you consume.

Sleep

If eating is about nourishment, sleep is about restoration.

And most of us are trying to function while carrying a level of exhaustion we’ve quietly accepted as normal.

We stay up too late. We scroll because we’re tired. We call it “unwinding” even when it has the opposite effect. We treat rest like the leftover part of the day — that thing we’ll get to once everything else is done. Even though it never is.

Here’s the thing: a tired body will make every part of life feel more complicated than it is.

Sleep is one of the simplest and most powerful things we can choose to return to ourselves.

Not because it’s productive. Not because it can be optimized. But because it is where the body repairs. It is where the mind settles. It is where integration happens.

And if we think of sleep as rest, then we have to ask a bigger question:

✨ Where are you allowing space for rest? Are you giving yourself any margin at all? Any silence, stillness or space to let your thoughts and feelings settle instead of endlessly ricocheting around inside you?

Sometimes rest looks like going to bed earlier. Sometimes it looks like putting your phone in another room. Sometimes it looks like not needing to finish one more thing before you can finally exhale.

Sometimes it just looks like honoring the fact that you are not meant to be “on” all the time.

Poop

And now, because it’s one of my favorite subjects and it’s so essential:

Poop.

Yes, literally.

A healthy body (or system) knows how to take in nourishment AND ALSO it knows how to eliminate what it doesn’t need.

Regular rhythm matters. Nutrition matters. A body that feels safe enough to function well matters.

And this idea matters beyond the body, too.

A healthy system cannot just keep taking in more and more and more. Eventually, it has to let go.

So here’s the question I keep coming back to:

✨ What don’t you need this spring? What are you carrying simply because you got used to carrying it?

Maybe it’s physical clutter. Maybe it’s a pressure you’ve put on yourself. Maybe it’s a relationship that has become an obligation or a story about who you have to be.

Maybe it’s guilt. Maybe it’s urgency that isn’t actually urgent.

Whatever it is, maybe this is the season to let your life eliminate a little, too because nothing is meant to be held forever (especially sh*t of any kind).

Rhythms for real life.

Maybe that’s what rebirth looks like.

Not becoming an entirely new person by Monday, creating a perfectly color-coded life, becoming the kind of person who never has a single chaotic thought.

Simply finding the rhythms that support your real life.

✨ Eating to nourish.
What are you taking in right now — physically, mentally and emotionally?

✨ Resting enough to hear yourself again.
Where are you allowing space for rest, silence or stillness?

✨ Letting go of what does not serve you.
What don’t you need this spring? 

Choosing what matters to you.

This spring, I’m choosing simple again. And you can, too.

It starts with coming back to what matters most to you.

Chances are you don’t need more information. More likely, you just need permission to stop making it so hard (done) and support choosing what actually matters for you.

If you’re looking for a gentle place to start, the B’vive Glow Guide will help you choose a simple intention for this season and begin building rhythms that support your real life.

And if you’re craving more personalized support, I offer one-on-one health coaching where we simplify your wellness, your habits and your energy so you can feel like your glorious self again.

If that sounds like what you need, you can explore my personalized health coaching options and see if it feels like the right next step for you.

Maybe choosing simple again is just one more way to live better than perfect.