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  Moving our bodies - Moving for mental health Michael Cole, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and The Society of Sports Therapists (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-4131-9566)   In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Week (13 th to 19 th May), and the Mental Health Foundation’s theme of ‘Moving my body - Moving for my mental health’, here’s a short blog post that’s part personal and part political. Movement is my primary love language. For me, simply changing my body position whilst sitting in my office chair is self-care. Engaging in exercise is one of the best presents I gift to my body and to my mental health almost every day. But there are tensions within exercise. In this blog piece I take a brief look at two of these. Tension 1: Exercise is great, but it’s personal – why aren’t you moving more? On the one hand, we know that the health benefits of exercise benefit everybody; on the other hand, an individual’s relationship with the act of exercising is hi