I’ve been nominated by my fellow @pureelite_official athletes for Most Motivational Athlete 2022. Click through to see 13 months of blood sweat and tears and read my story: PLEASE VOTE FOR ME (link in bio and in stories) This is not a “how I lost weight” post. Fuck that noise. Humans are beautiful because who WHO we are, not what we weigh. But it is a post of hard work, tenacity and rawness. In Sept 2021 I was hired as a DJ for a Freshers Tour across the U.K. I was so stoked as it was my first work since the p_ndemic. Like a lot of people, I really struggled through l_ckdown. In the U.K. we had one of the harshest and longest l_ckdowns in the world. I lost my job, my income, my family, couldn’t see friends, my childhood abuser came back to in my life which really unleashed a heap of trauma I hadn’t realised I’d locked away and I spiralled. I completely lost my mind. I didn’t know how to handle what had been unlocked and I almost took my life. Shortly thereafter I got the tour... Excited was an understatement but the man who hired me turned out to be absolutely vile. Sexist, dishonest, unkind and a pathological liar who withheld my money and hours. I was devastated. However, I stuck to my guns and fought. I fought hard. And I did get my money and my apology from the company. The scars of abuse at such a difficult time, however, were apparent. I returned home after leaving the tour early (who could stand to be spoken to like dirt under a shoe weeks after a suicide attempt). I saw the pictures of me and it wasn’t just my weight that shocked me, it was how utterly broken, miserable and destroyed I looked. I looked like I’d aged two decades in two years. I looked broken. And I was. I really really was. So I vowed that the next day I’d start therapy, get back in to Buddhism, study music properly, get back in to the music studio, and gym and get myself in to the best shape of my life. And I did it. I really did it. In July I competed in the @pureelite_official fitness competition. In August I toured Ibiza with @londonsoundacademy. In Sept I played @ministryofsound and in Oct @egglondonofficial. Cont in comments