Just a friendly reminder that being an athlete doesn’t make you any less human. You’re allowed to struggle with mental health, feel emotions, voice your opinion, have political views, and anything else that someone told you wasn’t allowed simply because you are an athlete :)
Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥
You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.
Hard is the lesson.
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NGL I JUST HEARD SOMEONE SAY, “MAYBE YOU DON’T NEED MORE TIME TO HEAL, MAYBE YOU NEED MORE EXPERIENCES THAT SHOW YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM A DIFFERENT REALITY,” AND YEAH… IT ECHOED IN ME
Integrity is doing it the hard way on purpose, even when no one would ever know the difference.
That’s how you earn what they think you were just born with.