Why I Won’t Turn My Pain Into Abs

Sam Cavalcanti
3 min readFeb 5, 2020
A young woman at the beach stands on her lower arms, holding her legs up in a forward split, her legs at a 180 degree angle.
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I went to a strength building yoga class a few months back and it was not the “old lady with back pain does some stretches” environment I had wrongfully expected.

What really got me were the fitness chants, repeated over and over by a buff instructor as my legs trembled and I surrendered to child’s pose. I understand the…

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Sam Cavalcanti

I'm Sam (they/she). From Brazil. Now in L.A. I act, write, scream, love, and pet cats. New stories thrice a month, methinks. (No AI generated content)