First ever 10 KM run yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!

I ran my first ever 10 km in less then an hour and a half. This is huge for me. Even as a teenage in high school when I played rugby, I never came close to being able to achieve a run like this. Even better is I feel amazing today, no pain or muscle tightness. I am in the 5th week of a training program for a half marathon on June 5th that I entered. I am not at optimal fitness, my belly jiggles, I have cellulite, and these strange flappy things under my arms. I am 49 with children and grandchildren. I weigh 180 lbs on a 5’ 4” frame. The standardize healthy weight scale classifies me as obese. Still here I am training for a half marathon, entering race, and with a respectable time too. So what changed? My concept of self, my communication with my body and my willingness to heal the projections and misconceptions I carried from so called societal norms. So how did healing my body image get me to 10 KM? I learned to trust my body, communicate with her, and stop fighting my natural state of being. I cleared out past traumas, and negative beliefs about what a runner looked like. No matter what society says in normal, I am not obese, or I would never have been able to run 10 KM. I stopped buying the narrative, and created a story where I can be who I want to be. I learned about foods, and the nutrients body needs, and I learned to check in with my body to see what I need at each meal to nourish my body, mind and spirit. I’ve come to understand that I needed to integrate all parts of me to thrive and found ways to bring this into my life daily. Its is not a practice it is a way of being. I have found my self out there along the road, and I not only like her, I love her. PS: Are you feeling disconnected from your body? Do you want to find clarity in your journey?

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