@jesskbacon: If I was told at school that exercise was a means to boost my energy, help me sleep and give me a natural endorphin boost when I was having a bad day, I would have a much better relationship with movement 🤷‍♀️ Instead, women are told that exercise is something they have to do as a form of punishment to make themselves smaller, which creates such an unnecessary toxic relationship with movement. I personally love weight lifting, dancing, spinning, swimming, but I haven’t been to the gym in months (and had major gym scaries about going back) after being ill over Christmas for weeks and being busy with book writing last year - and moving it down the priority list. I’ve been loving getting back into it and I’m already sleeping better and feeling my stress chill out before my very eyes😅 if my brain could catch up that this is good for me - for my mental health - and not something I am still low key afraid of as I associate it with toxic diet culture, that would be great, but one day at a time. Anyone else on this journey of retraining their brain not to see movement as a punishment but something that’s really fun and enjoyable? (When you find your thing, of course, and you definitely don’t need to be a pro at it!!) tote, sports bra + jumper @TALA Cute water bottle holder my own! #midsize #twenties #startingover #bodyneutrality #exerciseismedicine

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Friday 30 January 2026 18:11:54 GMT