Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

Living courageously

Something that comes up multiple times while talking with Lorna Jane Clarkson is the importance of embracing diversity and loving our unique quirks. What a boring, vanilla world it would be if everyone was exactly the same, she muses.

Buzzing with energy and dressed in a lilac pantsuit, her blazer open to reveal the words Fearlessly Female scrawled across a tank top, there is definitely nothing vanilla about this woman.

The day we meet, she has been bouncing between airports, hotel rooms and media appearances, yet she is still trying to find time in her schedule to squeeze in some exercise. A high intensity class? Hot yoga? Perhaps Pilates? Nope, what she really wants is just a simple walk.

“I love walking, it’s so underrated,” she says. “People think that exercise has to be all or nothing and I used to think like that too, but it doesn’t. Just do something, anything!”

For someone who is such a beacon of health and fitness (and doing it all in style), she wasn’t

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