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Thank you and . It means everything when people find the words and speak them out clearly.

Breathe 💚

Breathe.

yesterday the UK finally shook off a complacent governance and made way for some grown ups to start repairing the damage. The grown ups aren’t glamorous. They don’t make promises they can’t keep. They don’t tell fairy stories to soothe our panicked minds. They won’t be bullied by ambitious media types. We hope.

They seem like serious people for serious times. It’s different to what we’re used to. They seem@like they might be qualified - actually qualified - for the role.

Change and progress demand steadiness, intelligence and the ability to put one foot in front of the other without getting drawn into petty squabbles. It helps if everyone could simmer down and take day off.

Im trying to take a day off. It’s really fu***ng hard.

Ask yourself: are you so used to histrionics and melodrama that you can’t imagine a quiet moment let alone take one when it’s in front of you?

Are you so tired that momentum makes it hard to stop?

Is it impossible to imagine that with an achievable goal, one single step might be the beginning of map to a better destination.

It’s bout CHANGE. Guess what? Change is scary, even when you already feel really really bad. Especially when you feel bad, because you’re so tired and bruised.

Fear is understandable. Just breathe. Take a walk. Spend some time with someone who makes you feel safe and comfortable. And then when you feel rested and open minded, ask yourself:

Is your fear contributing to a solution or a problem?

Are you empowered to solve the problem that you fear?

Is your fear needed right now?

What if you put it down? Easier said than done right? But what about trying to?

Maybe there’s some courage in the answers - maybe you too can change your mind and your habits calmly, one step at a time.

Just breathe. Everything is fine 💚

I like a friendly neighbourhood polling station 🤗

I’ve never been silent on Palestine, for as long as I can remember. And I know who are the people who decided this particular series of events are too ‘complicated’ to condemn the total lack of humanity or ethics. It’s an opportunity for them to try and sound clever, obviously genocide is bad but…’ and ‘obviously colonialism is bad but…’ All they do is reveal their unconscious or tacit biases.

I’ve spent my whole life being disappointed that Im not surprised when people turn their backs on the bipoc people of the world, condescendingly saying it’s complicated. Like everyone else in the room is a fu***ng idiot.

Im not an idiot. Everyone knows that Politics, Economics and brokering long term peace agreements based on historical injustices is complicated. But we’re just people, mostly quite privileged because - day to day - we’re reasonably (albeit decreasingly) safe from governments. The only power we have is to say, compassion and humanity is NOT complicated, and we stand by our fellow human beings and voice their right to live, unmolested, no matter who or where they are. When you turn your back and make excuses you show yourself for who you are. It’s disappointing but not surprising.

We live in shameful times. Let’s try to exercise our power NOT to be part of that shame. You can be quiet and not look away, you can enjoy whatever comfort your life has. You can be a fellow human being and be kind. You can listen yo other people and hear their experiences, you can open your mind, and be willing to change your mind. There’s room for all of us without fear or violence.

By the way, it’s not a war if the people being attacked don’t have and aren’t entitled to representation or a standing army, if they can’t fight back at all let alone lawfully. It’s a prolonged attack on civilians.

Beautifully put by the one and only - who has probably locked himself out of his house having taken the train to the wrong city without his work laptop. JUST KIDDING he would’ve forgotten to lock the door in the first place. Obvs. 😏

You shoulda been there 🖤 FEVER RAY closing Simple Things Bristol 2024

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound
I grant I never saw a goddess go
My mistress, when she walks treads on the ground

💖 happy February fellow mortals x

I don’t want to panic anyone but we’re running dangerously low on TURNIP products.

Fancy some classes? Thu 2/9/16/23 Nov, Brislington URC 7.45-8.45pm see comments for info x

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Who *doesn’t* love #80’s vibes? And why are you no fun? 💅🏾

truth.

So Im quietly working away at my desk, with a documentary about David Lynch playing in the background, when I lookup and get FULLY CREEPED OUT by a shadowy figure at my studio door with no one and nothing creating it. 🫥

2023 means SPRING IS COMING let's limber up to meet her 😆 www.movewithcam.co.uk 💚 more info in comments x

I've decided to move the charity time away from the noise of Christmas and into the new year, and this time it's personal. Proceeds from January's group classes will go to . With massive love, weirdness and whatever garbage spews from the heart I wear on my sleeve 💚 Thank you for being you so publicly and therefore helping me be me.

(don't get too excited, I'm extremely bijou but very ethical...so you know...try paying the bills with that 💩)

Let’s address the elephant in the room: It’s my omega 3 bottle. It wont fit in the drawer. Im going to need a new kitchen. 🙄

HEADS UP: Mon 7-8pm Zoom class is closed. It was such a special class that brought us together during the pandemic. Thank you for bringing your smiles to our screens and sweating through it 💪🏽 you’re the best, always. Camx

It’s the last 4-week block of 2022! Get MOVING, feel great for the holidays 🤸🏽‍♀️ and ignore all that New Year New You bu****it 🥱

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I’ve never hidden my mental health situation, which started at around 9 (2nd yr junior’s at school) - I’ve never been able to. Though I did mask and seriously limit my life in order to just be okay. At that young age I was diagnosed with depression. It was a misdiagnosis - it was the 80’s and the medical understanding of mental health was still under-developed.

Diagnosis is important because a) there’s a possibility of treatment or coaching to help manage some of the characteristics that make day-to-day life tricky. b) because I’m prioritising my health and experience of life. Instead of thinking I’m just s**t because when I’ve said I struggle, I’m cross questioned: ‘well doesn’t EVERYONE feel like that?’ and since they all seem to be doing fine, I must be wrong about my feelings, my experience.

My life was lovely, but I kept myself in a vice-like grip until last year when my NHS GP gave me the time and space to talk it through. She told me that the medical profession knows better now. Little children don’t get diagnosed with depression or fed anti-depressants. There’s some hope for self-understanding now.

I’m used to people with No Fu***ng Clue dismissing the experience of those who actually have life experience of marginalising issues. Ironically it’s often because they ‘they read an article’ and think that’s the end of it. It’s especially hurtful when it’s people who are otherwise smart, kind, decent - suddenly acting like they have all the answers because they read the news once.

It’s worse when people on the inside get the help they need and then pull the ladder up after them. But that seems very common lately. Disappointing. Ignorant. But less and less surprising.

Thank you to for a measured and informative response to a really crap opinion piece in the press.

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Group classes are on summer hiatus. This summer only: 50% commitment times on PT with me ...because your health is worth it💚 👇🏾

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