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When Do I Stop Feeling Guilty for Making Time for Myself?
Mindset & Motivation Monday
A client asked me last week, “When do I stop feeling guilty making time to keep myself healthy?”
Here’s the truth: the guilt goes away when you decide your health isn’t negotiable anymore.
Right now, we live in a culture that normalizes the opposite of what actually helps us feel our best.
It’s normal to drink at every social event.
Normal to “wind down” with alcohol most nights.
Normal to schedule our entire lives around work, kids, errands, and everyone else’s needs.
And when it comes to exercise?
We fit it in if there’s time—which is code for “it rarely happens.”
No wonder consistency feels hard. No wonder taking care of yourself feels… weird.
Why does ordering veggies instead of fries make you feel like you have to explain yourself?
Why does asking for sauce on the side feel like you’re being “that person”?
Why does skipping happy hour for a workout feel like breaking some social rule?
Yet no one blinks when you:
Stay late at work and skip your training
Say you’re “too busy” to exercise
Drag yourself through the day, sluggish and overtired
Somehow, the behaviors that make us feel worse are “normal,” and the ones that keep us strong, energetic, and mentally sharp feel like they need justification.
It’s backwards.
What if you made it normal to:
Schedule workouts first and build your day around them
Treat training like an appointment you do not cancel
Plan meals that support your energy, not drain it
Say “I can’t—gym time” without guilt, without apology
This isn’t about perfection.
It’s about priority.
Motivation doesn’t create consistency.
Deciding your health matters—over and over again—does.
At first, protecting your workout time will feel selfish.
Saying no to things will feel uncomfortable.
Putting your needs on the calendar will feel unfamiliar.
But that’s exactly how new normals are built.
With repetition.
With boundaries.
When choosing what strengthens you—not what drains you—most of the time.
And here’s the beautiful part: when you surround yourself with a community that values training, recovery, and long-term health (ahem… you’re here at CSF), those choices stop feeling weird.
They become expected. Encouraged. Celebrated.
When you realize something powerful:
You are not taking time away from your family, your work, or your responsibilities.
You are taking time to become the strongest, calmest, healthiest version of yourself—
and everyone in your life benefits from that.
Normalize taking care of you.
Normalize making workouts non-negotiable.
Normalize building your day around the things that keep you Confident, Strong, and Fearless.
Your health isn’t selfish.
It’s foundational.
Normalize that. 💪