My friend Micaela donated to Stop Soldier Suicide, an organization that works to prevent suicide among veterans and active duty soldiers. Thank you, Micaela!
This whole campaign of using push-ups to help fund organizations like Stop Soldier Suicide got her thinking of another kind of pushing – specifically the pushing that comes with birthing. This led her to do a little research and she discovered that postpartum depression, self harm, and suicide are significantly higher among female soldiers and the wives and partners of soldiers than in the general population.
For more information about this, check out Postpartum Support International’s section on the military.
Micaela suggested that for her contribution, I push it to the song Push It, by Salt ‘n’ Peppa. She also suggested that if I really wanted to make this set of push-ups in any small way more like labor, I should do it nude with a bunch of people staring at my nethers. Well…
In honor of Micaela’s contribution and to raise awareness for the high rate of suicide among the women serving in our armed forces, I will now push it nude to Push It.
I usually do 22 push-ups for these things, but my videographer & I didn’t communicate well on where we would stop the music, so I do something closer to 50. Get strong! =P
Keep donating and keep me pushing!
And in case you can’t view this one on YouTube:
Push-Ups for Micaela