What's the right ratio of stretching to exercise? How much, how often, and why is it so easy to forget entirely?

Stephanie found out the hard way, through a foot massage. In this solo episode of mBc, she talks through the moment a masseuse told her, "you really need to stretch more," and the uncomfortable realization that followed: she genuinely could not remember the last time she'd stretched on purpose.

But this isn't just a story about a forgotten habit. Stephanie traces it back to a head injury a few years ago that triggered years of on and off vertigo, and how that experience quietly pushed floor based stretching and yin yoga out of her routine entirely. It wasn't laziness. It was her body protecting itself from a very real trigger, and it took real work, including EMDR therapy, to even get to where she is now.

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