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Text: There is a moment when you’re learning to deadlift that background moves into foreground, like those paintings full of dots that required you to look beyond the foreground into the background, so that the picture becomes apparent.
#ThisIs55
Text: There is a moment when you’re learning to deadlift that background moves into foreground, like those paintings full of dots that required you to look beyond the foreground into the background, so that the picture becomes apparent.
#ThisIs55
Training with Jeana Fanelli is shifting the tectonic plates of my being.
There is an earthquake at the core of my being and I am living and loving it.
New essay soon.
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There is an earthquake at the core of my being and I am living and loving it.
New essay soon.
Until then feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus… #ThisIs55
I wonder, in this essay, if the anxiety I experience during my menopause transition is my despair at the fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.
I am shifting that despair now. Lifting gives me the inner power to do that.
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I am shifting that despair now. Lifting gives me the inner power to do that.
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I’ve been writing about my #perimenopause for a few years now. My essays have covered the physical as well as emotional and mental health impacts of this transition.
I will soon start power lifting & will be documenting that too! Until then 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause
I will soon start power lifting & will be documenting that too! Until then 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause
Last year I started regular:
- strength training (for my bones)
- stretching (for my joints)
- walk for an hour (for my heart and anxiety)
- dance (for my heart)
📷 @rerutled
- strength training (for my bones)
- stretching (for my joints)
- walk for an hour (for my heart and anxiety)
- dance (for my heart)
📷 @rerutled
But this year, I've been less consistent because I started traveling for work again.
For the coming year, I want to graduate myself from at-home weights to working with a trainer to power lift.
It is consistently recommended for those of us going through menopause. So yalla!
For the coming year, I want to graduate myself from at-home weights to working with a trainer to power lift.
It is consistently recommended for those of us going through menopause. So yalla!
It's #WorldMentalHealthDay and #MenopauseAwarenessMonth.
One of the hardest impacts of #perimenopause for me has been anxiety. I've written about the ways it's kicked my fucking ass feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
One of the hardest impacts of #perimenopause for me has been anxiety. I've written about the ways it's kicked my fucking ass feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
There have been mornings when I am overwhelmed with an impending sense of doom. And I wonder if my anxiety–brand new, I was never an anxious person–is my despair at that fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.
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Yesterday, an ageist, misogynist fuck thought that calling me an "old lady" was the height of insult. The irony being, of course, that I regularly post #ThisIs55 and write about being perimenopausal. So here are some old lady pictures of me celebrating #ThisIs55 📷 @rerutled
Please don't anyone write to tell me "you don't look 55/you look great for 55." That is not the compliment you think it is. I am 55. That's it. I look whatever I look right now. Mona is an "old lady" who loves the way she looks. 📷 @rerutled
Mona is an old lady who writes quite frequently about being an old lady
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It’s the writer’s job to tell society what it pretends it doesn’t know. And as a perimenopausal writer, my determination to dismantle that pretense is especially heightened these days.
Art installation: Jenny Holzer for Pen America.
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Art installation: Jenny Holzer for Pen America.
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One of the saddest and most enraging things I’ve heard about menopause was a cis woman who said “How am I supposed to compete against the men when I can’t sleep?”
The simple answer of course is you are not. You never were meant to. That’s exactly the whole fucking point of it.
The simple answer of course is you are not. You never were meant to. That’s exactly the whole fucking point of it.
And given that the majority of us are not able-bodied, wealthy cis het (white) men, how the actual fuck has this been allowed to go on this long?
More in my next essay #ThisIs55: On Unbecoming.
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More in my next essay #ThisIs55: On Unbecoming.
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I’ve been celebrating #ThisIs55 for 5 days because I fucking earned it!
Happy Birthday to me!
Thank you @rerutled for pictures!
#5DaysofMona
Happy Birthday to me!
Thank you @rerutled for pictures!
#5DaysofMona
And my dad’s birthday greetings are the best! #ThisIs55 #FiveDaysOfMona
Day Two of #ThisIs55: I don’t remember who I used to be and I don’t know what I am becoming.
But I welcome her!
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But I welcome her!
📷 @rerutled
#ThisIs55 #5DaysOfMona the background
Day One of #ThisIs55: I was born July 28, a Friday=the weekend in Egypt. When registry office opened, my parents decided to register me as Aug 1 birth—start of the month, people would’ve just got paid=good gifts for Mona! So I celebrate all 5 days! 📷 my niece
55 years later and I still have the cheeks. And guess what Baby Mona was saying with her little fist raised?*
*Hint: what she says at the start and end of her events with her bigger fist raised!
*Hint: what she says at the start and end of her events with her bigger fist raised!
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