Mark Freeman

Those moments that feel impossible are actually when change happens. In a sense, taking on challenges is impossible with the brain or the body we have, but pushing through them in a healthy way changes us, and we develop the body and brain we need to make overcoming those challenges possible.

gasping for breath and trying not to vomit. But now, because I’ve failed through many workouts with burpees, I can do them. All of the failures helped me get to a point where fifty burpees are a warm-up. This is as relevant to mental health and emotional fitness as it is to physical fitness.

The capacity to do anything is on the other side of failure. Even

It’s not about avoiding feelings and controlling feelings.

It’s not about avoiding feelings and controlling feelings. It’s actually about feeling much more.

Everything we practice after this is simply an extension of accepting your internal experience and making a healthy decision.

The most basic mental fitness skill is learning how to catch an urge, accept it, and then make a conscious, mindful decision about what you want to do.