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Simone’s exact words were: “I say put mental h

Simone’s exact words were:
“I say put mental health first because if you don’t, then you aren’t going to enjoy your sport and you aren’t going to succeed as much as you want to. So it’s OK to sit out even the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong a competitor and person you really are, rather than just battle through it”

Perfectly put! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Society teaches us that the strongest are the ones who battle through it, no matter what. What it doesn’t show you is that by battling through it, it’s often at the expense of yourself.

I “battled through it” for a whole decade after my surgeries. Did it make me stronger? No. Did it make it so much worse when I crashed and burned and finally felt everything that needed to be felt? Yes because it’s all coming at once and impossible to untangle.

Most of all I love that she emphasised enjoyment because that’s why anyone gets into their sport originally and once it becomes your job, it’s so hard to keep the love of why you originally did it at its core.

@simonebiles said no, just like @naomiosaka did. These are examples of women knowing their needs, vocalising them and ensuring that they will do whatever is necessary to get those needs met. For anyone saying it was weak, how exactly is it weak to go against the grain and do the opposite of what the world expects you to do?

It takes strength, power and confidence to know you are good enough that you don’t need to prove it.
It takes self awareness to realise the old-school idea of “the team comes before everything else” are toxic.
It’s a strength to know your limits and it takes courage when someone says “this is the way it’s done” and you say “well then I don’t want it” like Naomi Osaka did.

I am so glad that little kids everywhere will be able to have such beautiful examples of boundaries

Wake up call: Feel Your Feelings Edition I’ve t

Wake up call: Feel Your Feelings Edition

I’ve tagged the creator of each post where possible

What do you call a thirst trap if you are fat and

What do you call a thirst trap if you are fat and have scars?
Oh yeah, a thirst trap.

PS welcome to Leo season 🦁
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Bikini: @elomilingerie (gifted)

My first photo dump Needed a break, took a break.

My first photo dump
Needed a break, took a break.
You all know I love my digital detoxes and I haven’t been able to have a proper one in the last year and a half because well… when you are locked down alone and your phone is the only way to have human contact, that seemed more important for my sanity.
But I went away with a friend and was finally able to turn my phone off off.
No texts, no emails, no social media.
My mind finally went quiet and my body stopped feeling like it was running in sympathetic nervous system (your stressed nervous system).
I often find it very ironic that this became my job because pre-viral photo, I was actually the person who used my phone least.
As a friend once said to me, if they voted in our friendship group who was most likely to become an influencer, I would have come last.
I was never with my phone. Never took photos. Would never upload things to Facebook.
And there is a big part of me that still believed social media keeps us in our brains and my personal belief is that we are happiest and healthiest when we live in our bodies and not our brains.
Social media encourages us to be in the past or the future.
And the key for me to be happy has always been to be in the present.
Always seeking to find that balance, whether it’s possible or not.
But after a week of tanning, swimming, hiking, reading and cycling, I am more in my body than I have been since the pandemic started.
And going to try to keep at least some distance between me and this device that became a lifeline for the last year and a half.

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