3 Mindset Shifts to Improve Your Wellbeing in 2025

If you ask a dozen different people, you’ll get a dozen different answers on what it means to live “naturally.” I’m not here to argue that point. For my purposes, I just mean trying to minimize the junk and toxins in the things we consume and trying to pursue holistic health. For me, trying to live more naturally comes from a core motivation of trying to live the healthiest life I possibly can.

This post is a bit more… philosophical than most of my posts. I try to stick to education and ScIEnCe. But I think it’s important to sometimes take a step back and think about why we’re doing things and what that looks like on a very practical level.

The amazing thing about life is you get to decide the specifics of what living a more natural life looks like in your life. It doesn’t have to look like your neighbor, your sister, or that mom you follow on Instagram. But if you’re interested in living more naturally, you’re probably interested in being healthier.

Though there are many specific practices that can help you life a more “natural” life, many that I love and practice myself, we’re going to keep it more meta today. We’re going to focus on the foundation for living a more natural life and what might help you do that.

1. Shift your focus to pursuing health

Again, the pursuit of health is my baseline motivation for trying to live more naturally and reducing the toxins in my home.

“Natural living” will look so different for everyone. I think for a lot of people it comes down to intentionality. We can get so lost in the hustle and responsibility of life that we forget how important it is to pursue health, across all the domains of life.

Our busyness and life responsibilities lead us to reach for convenience products and foods, to try to fit everything into hours that aren’t really enough so we don’t have time to take care of ourselves, and to feel we don’t have the time to keep learning about ourselves and our surroundings and what health even looks like for us. 

Obviously, the people that aren’t interested in living a more natural life aren’t even going to be reading this. But for those that are interested but struggling to take the leap, I’d encourage you to consider why you’re interested in living more naturally. 

If it’s a fad or to keep up with someone, it probably won’t last. But if it’s because you’re committed to pursue health, you’re more likely to pursue health and stick with any practices you incorporate.

I have switched to less toxic products when I was sold on the benefit to my health and slowly slipped back to conventional products as the motivation behind that kind of faded from my mind. At this point in my life, I’ve focused so much on learning about health and wellness that the changes I’ve made are not likely to go anywhere. Because the changes I’ve made come from a place of knowledge about various products and ingredients and a desire to improve what’s going on and in my body, they’re here to stay. I’ll be the weird hippie of the family forever. It’s such an ingrained part of my life because my focus is on health, not just something someone said would be good.

No one is going to ditch plastic just because someone on the internet said they should. No one is going to try to grab a banana instead of a pack of pretzels because someone on the internet said they should. They’re going to do it because they believe that it will be better for them.

Try to learn. Decide what would benefit your health. And always use that lens to determine what changes to pursue and what is manageable for you.

In what ways do you want better and in what ways could a switch to a more natural way help you with that? Start there.

Motivation is key. Even if you make a swap, it won’t stick if it’s not coming from a place of genuine belief that it’s for the better. But you probably already know all of this! Moving on. 

2. Focus on one change at a time

First of all, it’s important to note that trying to live more naturally doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing thing. Just because you don’t want to go full send hippie doesn’t mean you can’t make a few changes toward a more natural lifestyle that will greatly benefit your life. 

You may never be convinced to ditch plastic but you want to reduce your screen time. Or maybe you are always going to use fragranced products but you want to start taking your to-go cup to the coffee shop to avoid the plastic. It doesn’t have to be the same for anyone. 

What’s important is that you start from a place of saying, “hey, I want to make a change to better my life and my health. What’s ONE thing I could do to move in that direction.”

Not all the things. One thing.

As busy as the busiest person may be. There’s always something you can do to shift your focus to pursuing health and wellbeing. 

It could be prioritizing trying to eat lunch. It could be trying a 30 day challenge to eat fruit or nuts or something real instead of something processed for your snacks. It could be popping on a podcast about something you want to learn instead of music on your drive. It could be switching one personal care product to something with less harsh chemicals. So on and so forth. It could be so many things!

Find one thing you want to change and do that. One habit. One product. One practice. Even if you want to do all the things, I wouldn’t recommend trying them all at once or you’re less likely to stick with them. 

Find the area you are most interested in making a change in, and do that for a month. Once you feel settled in that, move on to the next. We all know the pursuit of health is a lifelong practice with ebbs and flows. Trying to live more naturally to benefit your health is no different. 

Take it in pieces.

3. Focus on trying to learn over consuming

This is true of everything. But specifically when it comes to natural living or trying to reduce toxins, it’s easy to just hear all the things people say online and all the products people push and to just go for those things and try to live that way without really understanding why. 

People say SO MUCH about what you should and shouldn’t do, buy, or worry about. Some of it has a basis but a lot of it doesn’t. As for products, there are so many things out there that are simply good swaps or that will help you in your pursuit of health. 

There’s also a lot of junk out there that isn’t helpful or just isn’t necessary.  A lot of it probably isn’t as worthy of an investment of time and money as something else may be. And who wants to waste your money! We’ve all fallen for the marketing traps before but gosh would it be so much better for us if we could avoid all the junk and find out what’s actually worth it.

That’s the whole point behind this blog. I want to help you understand the actual data behind health and well-being, especially from a natural living perspective, so that you can put your energy and resources to the best use. 

There are a ton of ways to learn about health, wellbeing, and natural ways of living. This blog could be a great resource for you. But there are a ton of online resources, books, and people you can learn from. The best thing you can do for your health is learn what is good bad or in between, why, and where to go from there. 

Summary / TLDR

If there’s three mindset shifts I would encourage you to embrace going into 2025 that will help you pursue health and wellbeing and live naturally in a way that actually benefits you, it would be these:

1) Focus on pursuing health

Before you can make a change, you need a motivation. A change without a deeply rooted motivation is unlikely to create real change. 

Why do you want to be healthy? Why do you want to live naturally? How does living naturally actually help you be healthier?

Understand those things and you will be a lot more likely to pursue positive health changes with ease of mind and with lasting effect.

2) Focus on making one change at a time

Age old cliche but so true. Overhauling usually doesn’t work for people. Maybe it will for you, I don’t know. But typically it’s much more effective to pick one thing to focus on and get that down before moving to the next. 

What’s the one biggest thing you’d like to change/swap/do? Do that first. Once you feel comfortable with that, decide what the next will be. Over time you’ll look back and realize you created the life you wanted.

3) Keep trying to learn rather than just consume

Marketing is everything in this online world. Everyone is trying to make a living by selling you something. That’s just how it works. It looks different now but it’s always been that way. Unfortunately it’s just much more in our faces. 

The next time someone thrusts a product in your face as a “must have” for your lifestyle or hobby or whatever it is, take a pause. There are a ton of great things out there, but they aren’t all necessary and won’t all be helpful in the end. How many things have you bought that you eventually got rid of because you didn’t like it or didn’t use it?? Take a pause. Learn. Try to understand what’s going to give you the biggest bang for your buck. Then purchase. 

These are simple points. But I think they can be pretty powerful. It comes down to determining your motivation for why you’re choosing certain actions or a lifestyle and then doing the work to understand what that looks like practically. 

This post felt a little strange to write, but like I said at the beginning, I think it’s important to focus on the why behind what we’re doing sometimes. I do so much educational content because I think it should be at the core of decision making. Sometimes though, I have to step back and evaluate the more philosophical side of this conversation. 

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