I Love this so so so much. You’re writing, as always, is so relatable no matter the subject but this one in particular hit so close to home. The line about Theraband bootstraps had me on the floor mere seconds after being stabbed in the chest about not wanting to be pain free enough. I’m so glad posture is clicking with you and honestly I’d love to check out the YouTube channel you mentioned because unfortunately a lot of the free content around posture (exercise has gotten sliiiiightly more better about this in very very recent times) isn’t very adaptive or inclusive.
That paragraph about capitalism and posture is VITAL honestly. The strain capitalism puts on our physical body alone is astronomical! Things that were only injuries for professional athletes are now happening to office workers. The average human body wasn’t structurally built to be seated with are arms bent in front of us four hours on end every day. The wear and tear from that coupled with the capitalist nature to work through it with a No Pain No Gain mindset is destroying us. Thank you for speaking about that aspect of posture too, I really appreciate that. I already know I’ll be revisiting this essay many times in my own chronic illness and pain journey. Thank you for this.
This comment means so much to me!! I’m so glad it resonated with you. I could have written so much more about capitalism and posture (and GENDER and posture, phew), like I was galaxy braining about this so much in Jan-Feb that it felt like I could have written about it in ten different ways. Posture is so damn important!! And the PT channel that I adore is Bob and Brad: https://youtube.com/c/BobBrad
I Love this so so so much. You’re writing, as always, is so relatable no matter the subject but this one in particular hit so close to home. The line about Theraband bootstraps had me on the floor mere seconds after being stabbed in the chest about not wanting to be pain free enough. I’m so glad posture is clicking with you and honestly I’d love to check out the YouTube channel you mentioned because unfortunately a lot of the free content around posture (exercise has gotten sliiiiightly more better about this in very very recent times) isn’t very adaptive or inclusive.
That paragraph about capitalism and posture is VITAL honestly. The strain capitalism puts on our physical body alone is astronomical! Things that were only injuries for professional athletes are now happening to office workers. The average human body wasn’t structurally built to be seated with are arms bent in front of us four hours on end every day. The wear and tear from that coupled with the capitalist nature to work through it with a No Pain No Gain mindset is destroying us. Thank you for speaking about that aspect of posture too, I really appreciate that. I already know I’ll be revisiting this essay many times in my own chronic illness and pain journey. Thank you for this.
This comment means so much to me!! I’m so glad it resonated with you. I could have written so much more about capitalism and posture (and GENDER and posture, phew), like I was galaxy braining about this so much in Jan-Feb that it felt like I could have written about it in ten different ways. Posture is so damn important!! And the PT channel that I adore is Bob and Brad: https://youtube.com/c/BobBrad