Improving a bad posture

TW Child abuse.

Motivation sometimes comes from the most surprising of places.

I've been working on my posture. It's hard to change 40 years of habit. So it's slow and gradual.

Today I read a post on another site by someone else working on their bad posture in middle age. Like me, they have discovered that the problem isn't the back, but a collapsed core. As they put it:

"From protecting myself from beatings as a child".

And then they wrote "it's hard to remember that no one is going to hit me anymore"

I wasn't beaten as a child. But my collapsed core is also due to feeling hurt and defensive in the past. And it is hard to remember that I don't need to anymore.

But today I'm going to walk tall.

In solidarity with anyone and everyone out there, and particular with that one poster. Everyone who is feeling small, but determined to keep trying. I will, because you do.