Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

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I’ve now discovered the author has more of a runners journal with practical guides which is probably more like the book I actually wanted so I’ll try this. I’ll admit, I tried running many years ago; my other half is a runner but I decided it wasn’t for me. And it gives you this sense of independence, which for someone like me, with agoraphobia,I found to be the most mesmerising, intoxicating thing in the whole world. Mackie knows what she’s talking about from a non-medical point of view and openly admits everyone is different so I’m going to find out more for my own mental health. My first foray into fiction was with my book “How To Kill Your Family,” which came out in July 2021 and also ended up in the number two bestseller spot.

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. Truth - I actually nearly stopped reading this with a 2 chapters left because for some reason it didn't really resonate with me. Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. When I was writing my book, Jog On, I read a lot about dualism: the idea that the mind and body are connected.Until one day she did something she had never done of her own free will – she pulled on a pair of trainers and went for a run. If, like me, you're a runner (ew, but Bella made me feel okay about saying this), or struggle with your mental health in some way, I'd really recommend this book. I think how Mackie charts how running helped her come to terms with her anxiety and develop coping mechanisms was excellently done.

She found the perfect balance between talking about challenges and hard times, and giving hope for the future.At the end of the book, Mackie has supplied a multitude of web links, resources and references for further reading and additional support both for running and for mental health.

Her divorce being the catalyst for her using exercise, namely running, as the crutch to get her life back on track. Then I swiftly grew to love that peace; the sense of giving my mind a rest for a while and just letting my body take over. 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). There is nothing that beats being out at night, in the cold air, flying down steep hills and the sense of achievement when you brace yourself for the uphill and make it; our bodies are a marvel. There’s also too much politics and talk of privilege that I didn’t really come to the book to read, and to be honest… a skinny white middle class woman writing a book about exercise complaining that most of the representation of exercise from online content comes from skinny middle class women I found a bit irritating.With candour, unfiltered honesty, and humour, Bella recounts how running has helped as a tonic for her anxiety and depression. A brilliant, compassionate insight into both mental illness and exercise , Bella Mackie’s Jog On will act as a comfort – and a spur – to so many. But it actually turned out to be more like a 'self help' type book, with her own person experience with mental illness backed by lots of facts and statistics. And the very calm assertion that these things 'don't leave' you 'don't get over them' was well done.

Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. 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.

I read this book during an anxious period and skimmed these sections as they heightened my own anxiety. I don’t deny exercise is good for your mental health and I wanted to know more about how running saved Bella Mackie’s life.