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Meg Tinsley received an MA in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is trained in a Jungian-inspired movement therapy. She is a psychotherapist and EMBODY coach who helps women reclaim healthy relationship with their bodies. She maintains an eclectic spiritual and movement practice. Feel free to contact Meg at megtinsleymft@yahoo.com with any comments or questions about this article or about her EMBODY course or EMBODY private sessions.   Explore more at: www.embodyher.org www.megtinsleymft.com

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Discovering Pleasure in Movement Instead of Exercising from Fear

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“The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.” ~Gary Zukav

I come from a family of runners. When I was a young girl, my father would rouse us out of bed on the weekends to run the three-mile par-course at the local park, competing with my siblings for who could do the most sit-ups at the stations along the route. We would end the event with a bunch of chocolate eclairs from the local 7-11 as a reward.

As benign as this story may be, it describes a pattern of …