I wanted to listen to my body — instead, I made it scream — Your body has stopped talking to you. For the whole summer, it hasn’t told you to sleep or eat or move or do anything at all. That has been your relationship with your body since you were young. You waited and it spoke to you, conveying information through pain and…

Life is hard, and you’ll be better off if you practice doing hard things — like making your body purposefully uncomfortable — Last year, I fell on my face more times than I had in all the previous years of my life combined. Over time, my body became peppered with tiny bruises as I crashed to the floor again and again. To be fair, the wounds were all self-inflicted. I was working…