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Fitness and Fatness
In Western culture, for whatever reason, Fitness and Fatness are seen as opposing forces. They’re two mutually exclusive categories that file everyone into one of two camps: The Fit or The Fat. For those of you who read my blog, you’ve probably noticed that I’m a huge proponent of body positivity and, as a yoga instructor,…
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Broken
Sometimes, it’s too much. I know that, as a species, we’ve been hurting each other for a long, long time. From the very beginning, we’ve set out to elevate ourselves by reducing other people. Sometimes, we reduce them to nothing. There’s been another shooting. This time, at a social services office that helps adults with…
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We Could Be Heros
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or…
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[Each] Otherness
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In my last post, I talked a little about feeling on the outside. In the following days, I was met with some wonderful responses from others who also experience this issue, which is a fun, surprisingly inclusive twist on an emotion that is, by definition, alienating. This sense of connectedness–or the fact that when someone shares something deeply…
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Time for a Change
I started this blog almost 4 years ago when I found out I would be moving to Oklahoma for work. I titled it “Just OKaleigh” as a play on how Oklahoma is “Just OK,” and listed the tagline as “Tracking my transition from Texas to OOOklahoma.” But it’s been 3 years since I settled into…
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Evolution
I get asked a lot of questions when it comes to diet in exercise. Usually it’s prefaced by “I’m doing this cleanse” or “I started this diet…” or “I bought this video and…” But more often than not, it ends with “…but it’s not working.” You can spend all day searching Pinterest and finding “Healthy Crockpot…
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Who do you do it for?
For those of you who like to read my blog posts, I had the honor of being a guest blogger over on the Pure Health Performance site. It’s not necessarily fitness focused, but more on making the most of YOUR life! I would be honored if you’d check it out!
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Thunderous.
Do you ever stumble across something relatively ordinary that, for whatever reason, has a serious impact on you? It’s hard not to feel silly attributing meaning to random articles on the internet, but I suppose meaning is the overall intent of their creators. A recent photo series featured on HuffPost Women had this effect on…
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An Exercise in Language.
I am, at this moment, inspired to write, but that inspiration is met with a complete lack of content. It’s as if I’m desperate to draw a masterpiece and have the charcoal and the paper but nothing to draw. I can’t promise this will make it anywhere, but I’m going to start it anyway, just in case something…
Illegibly K.M. West 