Exercise Is Not The Enemy!

For a hot minute, I refused to exercise. It made perfect sense to me to ditch it and never pick it up again.

I’d always been sporty. at school, I was on the hockey team and I competed in the Glasgow School races in athletics. Dare I say it? I was brilliant! I came away with gold and silver medals for the long jump, high jump, and 400-meter sprint!

In my 20s I took up yoga, even enjoying it in the spiritual mother country, India.

When I started suffering pains in my joints I had a mortifying experience in my Ashtanga yoga class whilst doing the pose Supta Vajrasana. I became stuck and my teacher had to help me release myself from the posture. From that moment it dawned on me that I wasn’t fit enough anymore to continue.

Since embarking on my remission the thought to restart yoga has come about relentlessly but I’ve been far too scared to give it a go. I’ve had the fear, the fear of relapse. which, let’s be real, is a load of utter B.S. Exercise was never the problem in the first place and as I age it becomes more apparent that exercise is the lubrication of the joints and the medication for the body.

I’ve dabbled throughout the year to get back a level of fitness but I always seem to stumble into the darkness of that fear. Upon meditation, it became apparent that this was the case and so I’ll be fighting the mental demons and will be reacquainting myself with my yoga mat and my running shoes.

Don’t delay your healing journey like I did, exercise as soon as you are able. By doing so you will fly into remission at the speed of light.

Big Love

Jenna xx