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![Finally getting a chance to dive into my Knit Stars 5 videos. Before the pandemic hit, I was planning on taking @jacquelinecieslak's courses in-person at one of the PNW shops she was to visit this year. When I saw that she had re-worked one of her workshops into a Knit Stars course... you bet I bought the early bird deal!
Oh my the truth bombs in this series that resonate so much with me – I spent most of my childhood and early adulthood being told I had a "belly" and needed to eat less/exercise more. Then when birth control destroyed my health, I let that emotional abuse continue in my own head that I was somehow personally at fault for my body not conforming to the 'standard' and I was "unhealthy". I did all the things and diets to lose the weight, and IMO – it just did more damage.
It'll always be a struggle – not being able to even do my yoga practice the last two years created new anxiety that I wasn't being "healthy." Uh, I was recovering from surgery after surgery. Even this summer as I was dealing with new extreme pain, I was still feeling horrible guilt that I wasn't working back up to my yoga practice or 4-mile-a-day-walks.
It'll always be a process to unpack that emotional abuse and realize that I'm fine the way I am now. I don't need to conform to someone else's standards on how I should look, dress, eat, exercise, or even feel. If I want to get back to a daily yoga practice and walking – that's totally fine. But it won't be the end of the world if I don't either, and it'll be because I want to because they make me feel good. Not because of "weight loss" or anything like that.
[Photo of a purple sweater on circular needles in front of a blurred computer monitor showing Jacqui sitting and knitting.]
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