15/09/2026
Please tell me I’m not the only woman who has mentally put her own body on a performance improvement plan. 😂
Because excuse me?
I’m eating better.
I’m working out.
I’m taking the supplements.
I’m trying to sleep.
I’m managing a business, a home, a child, a marriage, a social life and approximately 47 tabs permanently open in my brain.
And then my body goes:
“Yeah… we’re not doing that today.”
For years, my response was basically:
Why are you not performing?
Why are you tired?
Why can’t you keep up?
We have THINGS TO DO.
Especially when you’re ambitious,
slowing down can feel suspiciously like failing.
But somewhere in my 40s, I’m learning something I probably should have learnt much earlier:
My body is not my badly performing employee.
It doesn’t need another target.
Sometimes it needs me to actually listen.
I still have ambition.
I still train. I still work ridiculous hours sometimes.
I still want to build big things.
I’m just trying to stop treating my body like it exists purely to carry my ambition around.
Some days the calendar wins.
Some days the body does.
And apparently adulthood is learning that neither makes you lazy.
Tell me I’m not alone: does your brain still think you’re 25 while your body has started sending strongly worded emails? 😂
Send this to the woman
whose calendar and body are currently in active negotiations.
