Well, ladies
Dani left me a voice note on Monday that was three words long: get on the floor. No context. No explanation. Just that.
Five days. I had not left my house since the previous Thursday, and when Dani asked I said something vague because I already knew what she was going to say.
Every day had been full. Writing, cooking properly every night, finishing a piece I had been putting off for weeks, reorganizing the hall closet down to the shelf liners. I was calling it a reset.
Dani did not argue. She just said my body does not care whether staying in is a choice or a habit, and that it responds the same way either way.
At first the voice note made no sense. Then I remembered a conversation we had last week about one of her clients, a woman who could not get down to the floor and back up without pulling herself up on furniture.
She had no idea she could not do it until Dani asked her to try. That stayed with me longer than I expected, mostly because I realized I could not remember the last time I had been on the floor either.
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There is research behind what Dani was getting at, though she would never frame it that way. I read somewhere about a test where they ask you to sit down on the floor and stand back up without using your hands or your knees.
The less help you need, the more it says about your mobility and your odds of staying independent as you get older. That is not about fitness. That is about whether your body still remembers how to do what it was built for.
Tuesday morning I tried it before my coffee. ☕ Down was fine. Up was not. One hand on the floor, one knee, and a sound I will not describe.
By the end of the week I could get up with one hand and no noise. A small shift, but I could feel it in my legs and in the way I stood up afterward.
On Thursday I stayed down for a minute after I sat, legs crossed, looking at my living room from a height I had not been at in years. My house looked different from there.
Try it tomorrow morning. Before your phone, before your coffee. Get down to the floor however you need to, and get back up however you can. Once is enough. Just notice what your body does.
Clare texted Thursday asking if I would walk with her to the coffee place Saturday morning. Not a question, exactly. More of an assignment. 🤍 That is Clare's version of checking in: she does not mention the problem, she just schedules you into motion.
I am still doing it every morning. The getting up is easier already. The leaving the house is still under review. 🌿
