@uppercut_queen is here to #breakthestigma during Mental Health Awareness Month. Our members are
showing their strength by sharing their mental health and boxing journeys with us in their own words.
“Movement vs. exercise
My journey with boxing began long before I ever stepped into the ring.
My relationship with movement was always synonymous with exercise- how my body looked, burning
calories, weight, tone, shrinking.
When I found boxing, I leveled up. What once was used to create more distance between my body and
the relationship she and I had, was now centered on moving together, towards one another.
In a society driven by diet culture and fatphobic messages, boxing was one place in my world where that
was not found. Shelter.
When I walk into that space, people of all genders, ages, races, body sizes, experience/skill level, walks
of life are there. There’s no shaming, no talk of anything but gaining strength and confidence in our skin
suits. We only get one. Boxing was my way of truly moving into myself and gaining an appreciation not of
how my body looks, but the incredible function of my body, and the strength and resiliency it has.
It gave me back my power from years at war with myself. And for that, I’m forever grateful.”
@uppercut_queen