But it actually turned out to be more like a 'self help' type book, with her own person experience with mental illness backed by lots of facts and statistics. Her divorce being the catalyst for her using exercise, namely running, as the crutch to get her life back on track. When the dog’s going crazy, the kids are yelling and the husband’s got his music blasting, I just put my trainers on, plug my headphones in and I’m gone!

For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Perhaps it’s because for those three minutes I felt a bit less teary, and a bit less focused on what was going on inside my brain. Carrie Fisher's quote in Jog On gave a good reason why I should not skip my daily exercise, reading and wiring. Yes you read that right, it’s not a totally serious hard read, some of the accounts shared did bring a smile to my face. She is great at promoting that running is really accessible to anyone who is able bodied to take up, the problems with how exercise is advertised and yet how important it is and the need to get help for mental health.I will definitely be trying bagpipe music when I feel the urge to either resign or virtually kill a work colleague. It is well documented that runner’s high is due to the body’s own endorphins and it makes sense that something that we have evolved to do, and were built for, makes us feel so good after doing it. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Jog On : How Running Saved My Life Mackie, Bella More by this author. There’s also too much politics and talk of privilege that I didn’t really come to the book to read, and to be honest… a skinny white middle class woman writing a book about exercise complaining that most of the representation of exercise from online content comes from skinny middle class women I found a bit irritating. Most people think of running as something which is good for the physical body in terms of weight management, toning and generally looking good.

Exercise has long been hailed as a solution to all, and of course everyone’s experience of mental illness is different and must be considered on an individual basis, however for me, running has really helped alleviate a lot of my symptoms and I found this book to be really comforting and relatable, and a reminder to just do what works. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. I went into this book expecting a focus on running for newbies and its benefits to mental health that the author experienced. This funny, moving and motivational audiobook will encourage you to say ‘jog on’ to your problems and get your life back on track – no matter how small and scary those first steps may be.Mackie's experiences with running and mental health are similar to my own, thus making this a particularly interesting read. If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. When I was writing my book, Jog On, I read a lot about dualism: the idea that the mind and body are connected. Within a month, I was running through central London on my own, and I hadn’t been there on my own for years. Lift weights, attempt to do a pull-up, pilates, hell I will climb and hike mountains (I'm scared of heights) instead of run.