Well my body just reminded me who’s in charge around here (spoiler alert: it isn’t me). Because I was slumped on the couch and I coughed and now my back is in charge for the rest of the day.
My body is in charge. My body is the boss.
It’s really easy to get trapped in my head. For years I heard “mind over matter” and I believed it, “intellect over instinct,” and I internalized it. It’s easy to forget that I have multiple systems all working together and that I am more than my brain. I am all my cells and my cells are in me.
Every single cell. I am in my hair follicles and my stomach lining, I am my blood and marrow, I am my muscles and tears and fat cells and mitochondria, baby. I am every part of me and I live in every single cell.
Exhale. Yup. Even my shitty lungs and my faulty eyeballs and my deceptive freckles. I am all of me. And today, my lower back is telling me. to slow down and remember that. To stand up straight. To move as much as I can. To exhale as I bend my knees. To rest my weight. To use the assist. And to keep breathing.
Use the assist. Keep breathing y’all.
Pretty Good Ugly 