03/25/2026
Hint: most of these have to do with financial privilege.
I've found in my own experience and in many client stories that healing relationship to movement can take so much longer than healing our relationship to food.
The concept of willpower is yet another colonial, extraction metaphor what we've internalized to understand ourselves. Colonialism and wh*te suprem@cy teach us to view the land as a resource to be extracted from and used, and our bodyminds are not exempt. Willpower, focus, motivation, productivity - these are all things we're taught to just "dig down deep" to "tap into" and "unearth" within ourselves.
What if we tended to ourselves instead?
What if we focused on moving gently, responsively?
What if we embraced disability-affirming, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist values of deep rest, enoughness, and worthiness without productivity?
ALSO, what if our governments and systems actually f*cking cared about social determinants of health?!?!?
ID: Things that have radically transformed my relationship to movement (that have nothing to do with willpower):
1. A good raincoat & walking shoes
2. My office being walking distance from home
3. Living near a well-maintained city park
4. Working with an RMT who also has a larger body
5. Practicing my bird & plant identification
6. Cultivating an anti-colonial witchcraft practice
7. Learning how to tend to my chronic pain & illness
