What if the easiest way to make better health choices today is to meet the person you’ll be decades from now? We explore how training your brain to recognise your future self turns willpower into identity, making consistent habits feel natural rather than forced.

Across this conversation, we rethink January’s pressure to overhaul everything and lean into the truth that healing is slow, cellular work. We unpack the neuroscience showing that many of us process “future me” like a stranger, and how vivid, regular visioning rewires those circuits so your older self feels like you. From there, we connect the dots to epigenetics: daily behaviours and environments that nudge gene expression toward resilience, better recovery, and healthy ageing. Naomi shares the personal story that once shaped a fear of early decline and how a clear image of running strong in her seventies now guides choices around strength, sleep, nourishment, and nervous system care.

You’ll get practical, simple actions that compound over time: two strength sessions a week, daily walking and sunlight, steady hydration, protein-forward meals, massage and micro-rest for regulation, plus journaling and meditation to anchor intention. We also offer a provocative lens—cruise ship or care home—that brings long-term consequences into crisp focus without shame. Instead of chasing quick fixes, we align with habits that build capacity so the body can do what it’s designed to do: adapt, repair, and thrive. Role models who are breaking records in their seventies are not outliers; they are blueprints for a life built on small, repeated votes for health.

Want support to wire this in? Grab the free Future Self Meditation and explore the You Are The Answer book for deeper tools and science-backed strategies. If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with someone you love, and leave a review so more people can reconnect with their body’s wisdom.

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