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One of the best decisions I made upon arriving in this country was to be part of the CFL community. Before that I was going through a period of depression when I found myself away from my country and my family, the change had been quite drastic so exercise was therapeutic for me; I immediately […]

In April 2020, I was a year postpartum with my second child, at my heaviest weight, overworked, and looking for an outlet to relieve stress. I was hesitant to join another Box after taking a nearly six year break from the sport post-college. However, after reading great reviews and taking into account the accessibility to

In January of 2016, I was sitting on the couch looking through photos I had taken over the holidays. When I came across a photo of a larger woman in my kitchen baking with my daughter. I was confused at first, who was this woman in my kitchen? Then moments later, I realized that the

When I first started CrossFit, I was 10 1/2 years old. I had become fairly inactive and turned to online gaming with some friends out-of-state to avoid getting bullied [About my weight]. I played baseball from ages 4 to 9 but after a game we would often go out to eat to celebrate and my

Like most young girls, I grew up seeing what is widely promoted as the “perfect” body and what the “ideal” female should look like. In 2018, the summer before my sophomore year of high school, I became increasingly obsessed with obtaining this perfect appearance, and came to the conclusion that the only way for me