05/06/2026
It’s not time to point fingers, it’s time to lift them.
If schools aren’t teaching students about physical and mental health it’s time to replace critique with creativity and build 21st century alternatives.
🫀Your heart is a muscle. You can train it to be more resilient to stress while lowering your risk of heart disease and stroke.
🫁Breathing exercises can reduce anxiety on the spot. A lesser known fact is that poor breathing routinely causes stress and anxiety. We breathe to get rid of Co2. Our tolerance to Co2 is variable and trainable. Low Co2 tolerance leads to changes in breathing rate and volume which can cause feelings of chronic stress and anxiety.
🏋🏽♀️Exercise is a physiological prerequisite for a healthy brain. None of us-no matter what cultural or ideological narrative we adopt-are exempt from the basic physical activity needs of our body.
🧠Our brain changes throughout our lives. Our experience of the world around us is a direct result of how our brain functions, and how our brain functions is a direct result of our sleep, exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle. Who we are in the world (and how the world appears to us) is a reflection of how the 3 pound organ in our skull exchanges electric and chemical signals. Every lifestyle decision we make influences the development of the supercomputer responsible for the subjective quality of our lives.
Our body prioritizes one thing: Our survival. When our basic needs (hydration, nutrition, quality sleep, adequate exercise) aren’t met it impacts our hormone levels and neurotransmitters. Stress and anxiety are not punishments, they are prompts designed to drive behavior changes most conducive to survival. Physical health is the foundation for mental health. When failing to meet the needs of the body results in the inevitable mental strain designed to leverage a change in behavior it isn’t a “disorder.” It’s human physiology.
We’ve been taught to learn about everything, except ourselves. It’s time to flip the script for the 21st century🧠🔥
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🌎 We’re looking for leaders to help teach physiology first! DM to RSVP for our next training this July.
