In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, the Movement Is Healing series continues with a different kind of movement: strength training.

After exploring dance, joy, body image, and the courage to be seen, this episode turns toward strength — not as something intimidating or complicated, but as a way of caring for the body that carried us through survival.

For caregivers in the after, strength is complicated. We already know how to be strong for everyone else. But now comes a different kind of strength: the kind we choose for ourselves.

This episode explores how strength training supports longevity, balance, fall prevention, independence, confidence, and self-trust as we age. It also offers simple ways to begin at home with a chair, a wall, resistance bands, cans of food, water bottles, or grocery bags.

The body that carried survival deserves to be rebuilt with tenderness.

Caregiving made me strong because I had to be. Strength training is helping me become strong because I choose to be.

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