Starre’s story is a little different from many of the stories you’ll typically hear on WRS. It isn’t only about running: Starre is a runner, but she’s also a swimmer, dancer, and weightlifter. And Starre doesn’t compete in running: she doesn’t have marathon dreams or go after PRs.
However, being a runner, being an athlete, has been fundamental to her understanding of just how capable and strong and resilient and tough women’s bodies naturally, innately are.
As she’s noted, her own experiences and role models left her questioning the messages she was getting about women being the weaker sex and of aging women being frail.
So, she pointed her science research in the direction of answering her own questions about the strengths and capacities of the female body, and she wrote The Stronger Sex.
This book has profoundly evolved my own thinking about women’s bodies and our abilities, and it shines an even brighter light on how underestimated, disrespected, and held back we have been in modern times. Much more so than I’d ever fully appreciated.
Starre’s book has also left me feeling even more confident and thankful in the body I have, and also even more optimistic about its abilities as I age.
Starre’s own story embodies much of what her book is all about, living the strong, athletic life women’s bodies have always been built for. And in writing her book, she too has developed an excitement about being strong and powerful as she ages.
Starre’s story is beautiful and powerful, and her book is exceptional.
And, there’s more to come. Listen through to the end, when Starre announces her next book project, which I am very, very excited about.
How to Follow Starre Vartan
On Instagram: @starrevartan
Website: starrevartan.com
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