How do you save the world? You save yourself. I wish it was more complicated than that. I wish I had maps and plans and strategies and a million things …
Focus On What You CAN Do
You think you won’t make it back, but you will. Right now, you’re injured or sick. You feel weak and old and sad, and you’re shaking your fist at the …
Gyms Should Be Places of Love
Sometimes I just want to walk through a gym and hug every person there. One by one. Tell each of them that they’re beautiful just as they are, how they …
The Importance of Ass Kicking
I’m all peace, love and happiness until it’s time to put a boot up somebody’s ass. I want everything to be worked out through peaceful means with courtesy and kindness. …
20 Quotes to Help You Get Stronger
Lift it. Or quit it. Choose. Your indecision limits you more than your strength ever did. You can complain. Or you can pick up the barbell. But only one of …
I Don’t Need Easy
“I don’t need easy. I just need possible.” I have a shirt that says that on the back: a tank given to me by my friend Stacy, who left us …
Shut Out the Noise
They wouldn’t stop talking. Two young women chatting on the weightlifting platform next to me. Someone was sad. Someone had broken up. Someone had issues with her co-workers. It wasn’t …
Self + Worth: It’s Not Always That Easy
Oh, we love to measure ourselves. Against other people we know. Against us. Against people we’ve never met and never will meet. That’s kind of whacked but it’s what we …
What Is Your Obligation?
Obligation. This word itches at my ears lately. What is my obligation to society in all these shared public media spaces we now inhabit? And what is my obligation to …
Box. Smash.
Oh sweet Jesus, I’m tired of the boxes they try to put me in. And the boxes I try to put me in. Athlete Intellectual Mother Veteran Woman Writer Boxboxboxboxboxfuckingbox. …