Move your body, move your life

Whenever I burn out or feel low for too long, I eventually realize something obvious but annoying..... I haven’t been moving.

When my creative energy dies and everything feels stagnant, it’s usually because I’ve avoided exercise out of pure frustration with reality.

I get mad that the physical world moves so slowly compared to the world in my head.

I want my dreams to manifest instantly.

I want to export my vision like a file.

But instead, I’m stuck in this 3D human body with gravity and fatigue and errands.

So yes, I get mad at gravity.

Like a newborn just out of the womb, screaming because the world isn’t cooperating.

I enter my whiny bitch era and start trying to escape reality LOL

But every single time I get like this, there’s one thing that helps - movement.

And the annoying truth is, science agrees.

• Harvard researchers found that even a single bout of movement increases serotonin and norepinephrine, the chemicals that regulate mood and help you feel hopeful again. (Harvard Health Publishing)

• Another study showed that exercise boosts BDNF - a protein nicknamed “brain fertilizer” because it helps your brain grow, adapt, and restart creative flow. (Journal of Psychiatric Research)

• And a large study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that just 15 minutes of running per week can lower depression risk by 26%. (JAMA Psychiatry)

  
  

So it’s biology apparently.

If your thoughts feel heavy and your creativity is dead, your body might be the clogged part, not your mind.

What I’ve learned the hard way

Going to the gym never works for me when I’m in that phase.

I’m too lethargic. I go twice, feel heroic, and then never return while the monthly membership burns quietly in financial hell.

So I’ve learned to work with who I am.

• Running to the nearest park and back: free

• Searching “10 min home workout” on YouTube: free

• Buying a $5–$20 home workout challenge: cheap enough to motivate, structured enough to follow - I just started this

• Group classes: money + accountability + energy

  
  

When I did CrossFit with actual athletes, it snapped me out of my self-pity like nothing else.

It felt like my body remembered something my mind had forgotten - strong body, strong mind. (Also it was so expensive that I HAD to go to make it worth it, ended up becoming pretty buff which I didn't love so maybe pilates is enough if you just wanna be a hot girl idk)

When I danced every day, I never had stagnation issues.

Maybe that’s the truth - movement keeps your energy from rotting.

Stillness isn’t peace, sometimes it’s decay.

So when you don't know how to get out of the loop, move.

Not for aesthetics. Not for discipline. Not because you “should.”

Move because your spirit is stuck.

Move because the energy in your life wants somewhere to go.

Move because depression, burnout, and creative blocks often start in the body before the mind.

Get the fuck out of the rot, babies.

Your life is waiting for you on the other side of motion ;)