Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

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In Jog On, Bella explains with hilarious and unfiltered honesty how she used running to battle crippling anxiety and depression, without having to sacrifice her main loves: booze, cigarettes and ice cream.

For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). As someone who has grappled with anxiety for several years, and has found running to be a really effective way of managing the symptoms, I was naturally drawn to this book.Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. And indeed, though the author's experiences of anxiety differ from my own, there was so much that I found myself agreeing with (and thinking 'thank goodness someone else knows how it feels! I really appreciated hearing Bella Mackie's story of how she found a mechanism for helping her deal with her crippling anxiety, and found the stories that she included of others genuinely informative. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Although running is a very personal activity, I saw many of the reasons I choose to run, the challenges, the highs/lows etc.

I would love to give Jog On a higher rating, but the writing was repetitive and a bit too statistic-heavy for my liking.Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. As someone who suffers from anxiety and is a (very) amateur runner, this book helped me better understand how running can help quiet my brain chatter. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She describes how initially, it was just a short few minutes around the block, but how over time, she started going further and further, and opening herself up to not only new places, but new experiences too.