The wellness industry has historically catered to white, affluent women — in the businesses and CEOs it champions, in the customers it caters to, and in its prohibitive price points. For women of color, carving out space within this exclusionary framework has typically been a self-driven undertaking — one that centers on expanding the idea of what caring for your mental and physical wellbeing can look like.
“People would look at me like I was a big, scary, mythical creature,” she says of how her physical being was perceived at work and in social interactions. “If someone said something insulting and I asserted my boundaries, I would get gaslit and be called an intimidating, angry Black woman.” Looking for fitness inspiration, she scrolled through Instagram and stumbled on the page of an elementary school teacher who moonlighted as a fitness coach in her spare time. Snell reached out, the two ended up striking up a friendship, and the woman encouraged her to start exercising. Snell started using Instagram to document her workouts and progress and her account quickly took off. In 2014, she was featured in a nationally circulated magazine.
As a result, Snell sought out therapy, meditation, and “reminding [herself] over and over again that this is a daily process.” She’s since continued on her journey to live an active, full life — this time, with a mindset that places much less importance on numbers on a scale, and more on showing that there are no limitations to being athletic, regardless of body size. “I've picked up the most weight that I've had in a very long time.
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