Rachel Everett - Unstoppable Training

Some of my favorites from my favorite day of 2025. With my favorite people.

9 months post fusion!

I feel less pain everyday, still restricted in certain ROMs and VERY de-trained, but working to get back to me everyday.

Unsure what the next few months will bring surgery wise, and I feel a bit like I’m banging my head against the wall with tracking food and exercise with nothing really changing in my body. But need to trust the process and keep on keeping on - as it’s a helluva lot better than doing nothing!

Healing isn’t linear. Today is 8 months after being discharged from the hospital for my first surgery. I’m feeling stronger and more able… but had to fight back tears most of my workout this afternoon.

I felt so hopeless. I felt weak and tired and that everything I was doing was futile and a waste of my time. I would never get back to where I was.

Which may or may not be true. But I know I won’t be here forever. I just wish there was a timeline or something I could follow to know by “x” day you will no longer feel pain doing this.

I know I will get there, and this feeling will pass. But for now, I just feel sad and frustrated with everything that happened this year.