Truth - I actually nearly stopped reading this with a 2 chapters left because for some reason it didn't really resonate with me. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

If you suffer from anxiety and are looking for something in your day to day life that will help change your mindset, then I’d strongly recommend this book. I did learn a lot about anxiety, and really appreciated the honesty and rawness with which she shared her personal experiences. But through her inspiring personal story and realistic approach she's already inspired thousands of men and women to manage their mental health through exercise. It feels like the author wrote a really exceptional essay that she made the mistake of turning into an entire book. If, like me, you're a runner (ew, but Bella made me feel okay about saying this), or struggle with your mental health in some way, I'd really recommend this book.This funny, moving and motivational book will encourage you to say 'jog on' to your problems and get your life back on track - no matter how small those first steps may be. Perhaps it’s because for those three minutes I felt a bit less teary, and a bit less focused on what was going on inside my brain. As someone who has never experienced anything like what Mackie has gone through, I feel this book has helped equip me to be a better friend to those in my life who have suffered/are suffering from anxiety. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).

Following years of suffering with anxiety, but not knowing and trying to ignore it, came to a head when Mackie's husband of a year left her. Divorced and suffered from mental health problems, her motivation to get up from the floor was having to pee.

Packed with insights from athletes and psychologists and step-by-step achievable goals, The Jog On Journal has everything you need to get you up and running. As someone who does suffer from depression and has had some very severe episodes in my life, the description of cycles and 'no way out' really resonated with me.

The book encourages you to see other benefits to running other than weight loss, and it’s something I’ve never considered before. This book has given me serious food for thought about my own mental state and how I deal with the stuff life throws at me. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.but to my relief, she simply focuses on the benefits of running; whether you're jogging for five minutes, or heading out for a four-hour slog. I’ll admit, the past few years have been mentally tough for me, with a serious health problem, the heightened stresses of work, the insecurity I’ve felt around my position at work and not to mention the pressure of lockdown, both as a parent and as a worker. Now six years later I run 20-25 miles every week without fail and I don’t know where I’d be without it. There’s also too much politics and talk of privilege that I didn’t really come to the book to read, and to be honest… a skinny white middle class woman writing a book about exercise complaining that most of the representation of exercise from online content comes from skinny middle class women I found a bit irritating.

Exercise has long been hailed as a solution to all, and of course everyone’s experience of mental illness is different and must be considered on an individual basis, however for me, running has really helped alleviate a lot of my symptoms and I found this book to be really comforting and relatable, and a reminder to just do what works. I also love how the author promotes the opposite of the trendy health/ wellness lifestyle which has made so many feel excluded and unmotivated from running or exercising. I found it to be very relatable and a really honest account of Bella's journey with her mental health. I’ll admit, I tried running many years ago; my other half is a runner but I decided it wasn’t for me.

This funny, moving and motivational book will encourage you to say ‘jog on’ to your problems and get your life back on track – no matter how small those first steps may be. For me there was too many cold facts and not enough personal connection between the reader and author. I’d say well over half of this book goes into almost excruciating detail about the authors mental health and trails of irrational thoughts, to the point where it reads more as a mental health book than anything to do with running. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.