The Real Purpose of a Gym

Finding community and healing spaces can happen anywhere groups of women come together.

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I used to think I wasn’t a ‘gym person,’ just like I wasn’t a sports person at school. My internal narrative dripped with scorn. I wasn’t one of those people I could see from the windows, running on the spot like a hamster in a wheel. I wasn’t obsessed with the physical like…