Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

by Bella Mackie

Mental-health problems had stunted my own growth, leaving me too scared to take on challenges, trying to rigidly control the environment around me to prevent any possible hurt. Quitting things when they got hard. Turning down opportunities that would push me, or give me independence. Being small.

… I wasn’t a failure, I wasn’t pathetic, I wasn’t weak. I had proved that I could set a goal and meet it. I had shown that I could redefine who I was and who I could be.’[108]

for that.