Chrissy Teigen has opened up about her mental health in a vulnerable Instagram caption . The cookbook author opened up about her experience attempting to complete a tree top ropes course as she specifically focused on one part of the course that required her to walk across a log. “I did this log crossing a few years ago when I last came here, when I was struggling mentally,” her caption began.
Teigen explained that she thought going through the course again this time would be different from then, noting that it previously felt like each of her feet weighed 1,000 pounds and she was so tense she thought she was in the middle of a “car crash.” “I made it across then, after about 40 lonnnng minutes. And I’m not even scared of heights! It wasn’t the height.
It’s fighting through the pain in my arms, my neck, my feet most of all,” she detailed in her post. When she went to attempt the course again this time she thought she could “make the pain go away” by changing her mindset and relaxing by using breathing techniques in addition to focusing on enjoying what she was doing. Despite her preparations, she felt the course was just as difficult as it was the first time — even though she’s faced a lot in her personal life in recent years, including the stillbirth of her baby Jack, who died at 20 weeks in utero , revelations that she’d bullied people online early in her career and her struggle with sobriety.
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