You Have Permission to Skip
Despite what you may be seeing on social media, no amount of exercise can make this moment less frightening.
If you’re feeling stressed, living in fight or flight mode, (which most of us are, to some degree) actually ENGAGING in the flight response via movement, can keep you in the stress cycle.
Am I saying that all exercise keeps people stressed? Of course not. But if your relationship with movement is unhealthy, perpetuating a practice out of stress won’t make it healthy. And might not do anything but exasperate your stress.
Clients are “arriving” to sessions feeling overwhelmed by the volume of home-based HIIT exercise routines that are espoused as critical for making it through this moment in time. Frustrated by the push-ups and sit-ups and feats of athleticism that are being featured on social media.
Comparison, in a moment calling for compassion, is good for nothing & no one.
If your well-intended friend, coach, influencer, whatever, is making you feel crummy, unfollow. Mute notifications.
Protect yourself.
If you are safe and able to move your body, that is your prerogative. But you do not need to exercise to successfully get through this long moment.
This is not forever, but how you care for yourself now will impact the future. .
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