Laura Henshaw

So it was very much for a functional reason of just wanting to feel mobile and not wanting to be in pain when I was sleeping and things.

Yeah, I mean, such a good question.

And for me, I learned this maybe it was three or four years ago when I got injured and I couldn't run.

I think that's something when running can be amazing and it is my form of meditation.

I think we're quite similar in that.

But when it's taken away from you, it can be quite confronting because if you found something to kind of manage your mental health and then it's gone.

You have to find other ways.

And I'm grateful that I went through that before I was pregnant.

So then when I was pregnant, I could lean into how I was feeling.

When I was younger, I would run to lose weight.

And it was like, that was the purpose of running.

I would just want to do like a long run, sweat as much as possible.

Like it had to be strenuous or it wasn't a proper workout.

And that's what I worked through.

And I mean, that was a big part of why we started Kik.

After navigating that.

And unfortunately, a lot of women do go through that.

I don't know many women that haven't struggled with their body image over their life, unfortunately, because of the pressures of social media and society.

So for me, when I was pregnant, walking, I found helped.

I also, I think I knew that I felt average because I was pregnant.