Category Archives for "Express the Soul"
Mourning the Loss of Your Fit-self
Yesterday I wrote some thoughts out on Facebook which I thought might be worth fleshing out a bit. In recent months, I’ve heard quite a few others talking about how fitness no longer comes easy. It feels much more like a chore than it used to, but there’s a regret or a sadness about that […]
Continue readingShifting Sands: Where things are going.
For the last several years, I’ve sensed a slow shifting of sands in my life. Like there was a gentle re-focusing happening. It often felt like I’d lost a sense of myself as I moved away from the limelight I’d occupied in the fitness world. Now I see I was actually gaining a sense of […]
Continue readingTime Was Wasting Me
Have you ever found yourself feeling like a totally different version of the person you set out to be? It’s like the person you once were died and you just woke up to find your new self adrift. Like every light you ever looked to for direction and comfort in life went dark; everything you thought you knew […]
Continue readingWhy Any of This Strength Stuff Matters
It seems so obvious in hindsight. All the dots were there – some were even connected – but one thing that seemed missing was finding why any of this strength stuff mattered to me. Strength has always been important to me but often it was fuelled, much like my leanness goals, by a desire to […]
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