Pick Me Up! Special – September 2019

Noone

should

everfeel

invisible

Answersonpage 61

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Number

jig

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3.Evergreentree(3)

5.Classicalmusicdrama(5)

7.Kernelina shell(3)

8.Shoppingcarrier(3)

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JessicaRihal,^35 has

an

important message she

wants to share with you...

WORDS BY LUCY BRYANT IMAGES: SWNS AND ALAMY

A

fter a long, hectic

week, we all want to

relax and unwind.

For me, my happy

place was always

somewhere on a yoga mat.

Especially in summer 2013,

when the anxiety I suffer from had

started to peak.

I loved yoga, and

found it calming.

It seemed to do

my anxiety the

world of good.

So, I found a yoga

class, rolled out my

mat and looked

forward to a

relaxing session.

Only, as rows of slim, toned,

bendy women kicked into

headstand without a problem, I

waited patiently.

I expected the instructor to

come over and show me a move

more suitable for me.

But she didn’t.

As I continued to

sit there awkwardly,

my heart was sinking.

I was being totally

ignored because of my

body.

At a size-30, I was the

biggest girl in the class by

a mile, but I may as well have been

invisible to them.

How humiliating.

Yet, at every new yoga

class I tried, it was exactly

the same.

And if I wasn’t

ignored, I was treated like

a newbie, even though I’d

been doing yoga since

early 2007.

‘If you can’t keep up

that’s fine,’ instructors would say.

Or sometimes...

‘Someday you will be able to do

these more difficult moves,’ they’d

smile over to me, which let’s face it,

was highly unlikely.

Instructors simply didn’t know

how to cope with someone like me.

I’d always been bigger and in

recent years, I’d grown

happy with my body

You can achieve

anything you set

your heart on

Just for

FUN