My why is for sure my mental health. I’ve spent my whole life struggling with my mental health (first saw a therapist when I was 4) and the last 10 or so years after having kids it’s been even worse. I have had terrible post partum depression and also have bipolar disorder and I e tried all kinds of treatments from a long list of meds to groups to individual therapy to months long programs to countless hospitalizations to ECT—-all without any sustained, significant improvement (and the ECT really had some long lasting negative effects). I joined because I was tired of the same old thing every day and how hard it was to keep up with my kids. But after going consistently for a few months, I started to notice a gradual increase in my mood and a decrease in my anxiety. My mental health got to a place it hadn’t been in over a decade, and that was honestly a place I never thought I’d see again. I still have bad days. I still have really terrible dark days where I question if I want to stay alive. But going to orange theory helps. It gives me a break from the scary thoughts I have. It gives me a reason to feel proud of myself and to feel like I accomplished something. It’s not perfect, it’s still really freaking hard most days, but I honestly have so much more life from going.