Why progress isn't linear, and what to do when it gets hard Last month I wrote about play. About the joy of movement for its own sake, without a performance metric attached. About finding the lightness in what your body can do when you stop measuring everything. This month I want to talk about what happens when the lightness disappears. Because it does. For everyone. And what you do in that moment — or more honestly, what you don't do — tends to define everything that comes after. The Myth of...

Why Play Might Be the Missing Piece in Your Fitness I've noticed something this month — in the podcasts I've been listening to, the articles landing in my feed, the conversations I keep having. They've all been circling the same idea: the importance of play in movement. And it's made me look at something we've quietly done as a society without really questioning it. We've turned movement into exercise. What I mean by that: we don't count a walk as exercise. We don't count running around with...

Why Wobble Isn't Failure — and Change Might Be the Best Thing That's Ever Happened to You This year has been a year of chapters. Some closed loudly. With grief, with hurt, with the particular kind of exhaustion that comes from finally admitting that something you wanted to work — really, genuinely wanted — just wasn't working. Relationships that consistently left me feeling less than. Wondering, in that quiet way you do, whether I was the problem. Whether I simply wasn't enough. Other...