Commercial media loves to problematize the body and make us feel insecure. Products are sold to us that promise to fix something about us that we're told is unattractive or unhealthy.

Often, we're told that something we've been doing our whole lives with no issue is actually slowly but surely killing us!

One of the things that really blew my mind when taking physiology classes in massage school was learning that a muscle will start contracting when the brain tells it to, but won't stop contracting unless the brain sends a separate signal telling to to stop. A muscle isn't like a machine gun where, as soon as you take your finger off the trigger, it stops firing. It's more like a light switch, where, if you want to turn it off, you have to make a separate, specific effort to make it stop.