And I would say it's not only appearance, I would say equally, it's a loss of performance.

Right.

You know, and I'm not talking about athletic performance, but just I don't feel good in my body anymore.

My body can't do the things that it did.

So we can put it all, I think, in that same necessity of compassion, which in general,

compassion as motivation to do things is so much better than bullying yourself.

That's motivation. You know, or trying to hate yourself into taking some sort of action.

It isn't about being perfect.

It's about being better.

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Today we are talking about the psychology of movement

and some common objections that many of us have come up against when it comes to movement,

what movement even is, and how we can heal our relationship with our own body image and maybe

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