10/26/2026
If exercise has hurt you, exhausted you or triggered symptoms enough times, it makes sense that you may stop trusting it.
That’s different from being lazy.
And it’s different from saying your illness is “all in your head.”
Our brains learn from experience.
So if your experience has repeatedly been:
exercise → symptoms → crash → recovery
part of rebuilding fitness may involve creating a very different pattern:
tolerable movement → adequate recovery → repeat.
Sometimes progress starts with doing LESS than your old fitness mindset wants you to do.
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