A Friend's Journey of Lifting (Taylor Ashley)

I do what everyone else does on a Monday (other than it was still the weekend. LOL): I skimmed through my social media stuff to catch me up for the day. One post on my personal Facebook caught my attention, and I had to share it with everyone. This is from one of my good friends from college, Taylor Ashley, who definitely knows a thing or two about embracing the weights. I asked her if I could share with this everyone, and she say I could. THIS is why I created the Embrace the Weights movement in the first place. I also happened to like the photo that came with the message (Pardon the language, BTW. LOL...)

This is from her Instagram account (it's private so I can't share the actual link)

This picture made by my older brother couldn't be more accurate. Today two people said things that were ignorant. The first thing that was said to me was that I'm "too into fitness" and the second was "you're a guy" due to lifting heavy. Allow me to clarify for you people what the gym and lifting does for me and has taught me. You know when you go and get hammered after a bad day or when someone makes you mad? I go to the gym not because I'm trying to be a fitness model but because it's my therapy just like yours is alcohol. Yes, you may eat wings and drink beer but I prefer drinking my gallon and eating peanut butter with celery or cucumbers with blueberries. Why? Because I enjoy it and my body feels great. That's not all I eat. I'll tear up a triple cheeseburger, a pizza,cake, and a whole box of cereal. It's called balance and I'm happy. I can assure you that I'll never be the girl to only run on the treadmill and eat salad. Now as far as "you're a guy" goes that's lack of knowledge because females don't produce enough testosterone. If you feel that way then don't slide through my DM, text or snapchat me... The gym has taught me a lot about life. It has taught me to be comfortable with failure because that just shows that I've pushed myself to my limits. I have built self confidence by building strength. I went from being a stick to having curves due to weights which has taught me patience because you can't build muscle overnight. Lifting has taught me to not focus on the body that society has put into every woman's head and focus on what my body can actually do. I feel sorry for those people who will never know the potential and strength that their body can have. I also feel sorry for those saying those things to me because it's not a reflection of me it's a reflection of an issue within them. 
On that note, I'll pray for those people and I want to thank you for inspiring me to lift that much harder today 😊❤️ Thank you mommy for raising me to be strong woman.

Rant Over.

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I can't add any more to this, to be honest with you all. I want to thank Taylor for allowing me to share this with all of you. I won't post her social media links as I think she has set them to private. If you have any testimonials or stories regarding your relationship with lifting that you wouldn't mind sharing, please email them to Embrace the Weights at embracetheweights@gmail.com.