Dr. Zelana Montminy

How do we even start?

And it dawned on me that, and I knew this and I felt this in myself over the years.

And I certainly did write about this, that our pursuit of wellness and being well is

And the actual performative element of it has actually barricaded us from being truly well.

And that we need to spend much less time trying to hit the to-do lists and the products that are being pitched and much more time about actually being alive in the moments that we're living.

Listen, I think that's a really profound question.

And I think you've hit sort of the heart of my work is that I'm a human being.

So yes, I study these things and I work with clients, but I'm always trying to narrate the chaos of being human right now and make sense of it.

And so I hope that I speak to

The narrative truths that we all feel, but maybe just don't know how to name or that we, and I think that's why some of my social content has really gone viral and been so well accepted is that it's.

I'm talking about the things that every single one of us knows and lives, but maybe doesn't know exactly how to say it.

And so throughout my days, I understand that life is cyclical and that we live through seasons of time and that nothing really is forever.

And I don't mean that like in a saccharine way.

People aren't forever.

Actually, our experiences are.

our timelines.

If we're going through struggles with one kid, that's going to pass.

It's really tough in the thick of it, but I also know people are like this and we go through things.

And I think being a parent actually illuminates that very clearly because we think something's really problematic and then it's like a week or two later, it just fizzles away.

And so I think leaning into those cycles and the seasonality of it is something that I do in order to get through and use