Thread by @juleshorn01

I spent years chasing the perfect body, diet, workout routine until I realized what I was really chasing was safety, love, and acceptance within myself.

This image says it all:

2019 vs 2025.

Vegan. Modeling. Overtraining.
Smiling outside, disconnected within.
I was chasing life.
Now I’m loving it.

Here’s how I stopped running from my emotions and came home to my body:

The body stores everything you didn’t feel.

The grief you avoided.
The rage you swallowed.
The fear you buried to survive.

It doesn’t just disappear.
It hides in your gut.
Your jaw.
Your breath.
Your fascia.

You can’t out-train trauma.
You have to release it.

I used to train to escape myself.

Every workout was a coping mechanism.
I ran from the stillness.
I thought discipline would save me.

Now? I move to meet myself.
I breathe through resistance.
I open the body with fascia maneuvers.
I let the nervous system unwind.
This is the work that truly healed me.

Fascia is the fabric of your trauma.

I used to think tension was from training.
But most of it was emotional.

Fascia holds your history.
And if you don’t unwind it gently, with breath, intention, and presence, You stay stuck in the same loops.

I stopped fighting my body.
I started feeling it.

Nutrition didn’t heal me, but it helped me come home.

I was vegan because I thought it made me “clean” and it’s the only way.
But I was disconnected from my gut and intuition.

Now I eat whole foods. Mostly animal-based.
Not from rules, but from feeling.

When your nervous system calms, your cravings shift.
You stop eating from trauma.
You start eating from truth.

I don’t chase anything anymore. I feel everything.

I release grief from the gut.
Shame from the throat.
Tension from the jaw.

The body remembers what the mind forgets.
And the path to freedom isn’t mindset work, it’s embodiment.
It’s learning to feel safe in your own skin.

This is why I created Mindful Movemend.
This is why I teach fascia release, nervous system healing, and somatic trauma work.

join my next class:

August 10 | 8:30am PST | Full Body Fascia & Emotional Release

$22 - 70min - recoding included

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Thank you for reading

Focus on the inside and the outside will appear 🙏🏽

Love, @juleshorn01