11/01/2026
Don’t bypass your pain. If you go do a vigorous class or a heavy session in the gym, be mindful of your body if you are already tired, wired, stressed or exhausted. Quite often women ( and men for that matter) will ignore these signals from the body and think if they go do their regular hard workouts the exhaustion will diminish. In some respects this is true, but it’s a temporary high like caffeine, chocolate and drugs. Our ‘happy hormone such as a rush of endorphins and the likes will ‘disguise’ your symptoms . But you may pay the price long term with injury, dehydration etc etc. Of course we need to put our body under certain manageable stress to surviv and thrive and prime our system..but then if this becomes overloaded due to a crazy stressful lifestyle and you are in that ‘survival’ mode continually without adequate rest in your week, then you can expect burnout. There’s no rush to get fit…especially in Winter when our body is already giving us signals to go easy. Our biological state is so important not to ignore. Society is constantly pushing us to ‘go for it’ this time of year! I say…slow down and take a few moments in your week to breathe, take micro movements, gentle moving meditation and somatic work to truly get to know your body and meet it where it is. Stop fighting it and go easy 🙏🥰❤️
