Jog On: How Running Saved My Life Free Audiobook Download by Bella Mackie

From the moment she picked up her first pair of sneakers, Bella Mackie knew that running would help save her life. Once she ran her way out of depression and self-imposed numbness, Mackie discovered how much joy running could bring to her life. Here, in her personal story of running, Mackie shares how she learned to run during a dark time in her life, and how it led to a healthier relationship with food and exercise.

[In] jogging saved my life. I really struggled with feeling self-conscious, and keeping up with the social norms of not being 'skinny'. I just wanted to be healthy and fit, but running was something that made me feel like I could be confident in myself.

Running saved my life because of the physical and emotional benefits that it provided me. I ran so I could feel a sense of accomplishment, I ran so I could feel power, and I ran to enjoy myself. However, there was more to this journey than just a physical one. Running gave me a mental clarity that helped me on every level of life: physically, mentally, and emotionally. In this audiobook, Bella Mackie shares her personal story about how running saved her life.

One day, my partner and I were at the gym when a woman who had been working out with us for months approached us and told us she was going to die. We are both runners, so naturally we wanted to hear her story. She proceeded to tell us that she had been running for a decade just to keep up with her kids in the neighborhood, eventually having a heart attack while racing against time to get home from work one day. Her doctors told her that if she continued running at such a high level of intensity, she would never make it through another long-distance race. That night as we were driving back to our apartment, I had an epiphany: that I could run away from my problems and they would still be there waiting

Jog On: How Running Saved My Life is an inspirational story of a woman struggling with her weight, the loss of her father and how running saved her life. Bella Mackie writes about how running was an answer to everything that was happening in her life. She shares stories and explains how she found peace during this difficult time by putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what obstacles stood in her way.

Bella Mackie doesn't like to run. She never has, and she never will. But that doesn't matter because it saves her life. After a bad break-up and a devastating double mastectomy, Bella decides to take up running in an effort to develop mental and physical resilience she never knew existed. She finds herself falling in love with the sport, especially when she starts racing in a marathon for the first time ever - but it's not until one day when her teenage son tells her he wishes he had been born a girl that Bella realizes how running has helped her heal from the emotional wounds of losing both breasts at such a young age.