Karly Borden of The Public Run Club talks with me about her role in my healing process, our trip to Tanzania and why coaching runners into a new relationship with their bodies is her passion. She has challenged me to take this quirky new body I have and make it my home.


Karly Borden's Bio:
I'm the coach and founder of The Public Run Club. I currently live in Santa Barbara, California, which is where I attended college, ran cross-country for my school, completed my first marathon, and where I began recovery from disordered eating and exercise compulsion. During this time, all of my treatment centered on establishing a new relationship with food, and exactly zero involved creating a new relationship with exercise. Over the next 12 years, through several types of therapy, personal study, and story-telling with peers, I worked towards health that not only tolerated movement but embraced it as an integral part of my wholeness. After coaching friends and family for years, I decided to put my own training front and center and became a certified RRCA coach in 2016 with the ultimate goal of creating a running club to help women proactively untangle from a complicated relationship with exercise and their bodies. We’re now a global group of women who are turning towards the stories of our bodies using running as our lens.
You can find Karly on Instagram at @thepublicrunclub, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thepublicrunclub/ and on her website at thepublicrunclub.com.