“I’d really love to know how to stop comparing the athlete I was before injury to the athlete I am now. I had knee surgery 10 months ago, and even though I’m fully cleared for all activities I am really struggling to get back into a groove with running. Any type of speed work really…
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97 | Carrie & Cindy Ease Your Fears of Reinjury
“One of the biggest challenges athletes face is trying to figure out if the pain that they’re experiencing is pain that’s a signal to stop or a pain that is okay to push through. Like, ‘When I feel this pain, if I push through, am I going to do further harm? Am I going to…
96 | Carrie Answers Your Questions: Re-Finding Your Edge
“I’d love to know how you ever get comfortable with pushing the limits, or pushing hard again, without being so scared of re-injury. I often feel that in my speed workouts, I’m holding back, afraid to see how hard I can push, because I’m scared, but I also don’t want to let that fear hinder…
95 | Long Jumper Kate Hall-Harnden: Finding Strength in the Challenge
[Having type 1 diabetes] comes with a lot of struggles, but I try to kind of embrace those struggles and learn from them and they help me grow. Having that perspective with type 1 helped me with my ACL recovery. Because I could say, ‘Alright, this is going to be one of the hardest times…
94 | Carrie Answers a Question: Family Matters
“How can we communicate with our partners, friends, and family about how hard we are finding it to be injured and what we need in terms of emotional support? —Anna “I have the same question: My husband is very helpful in doing physical tasks I still can’t manage eight months after a trimalleolar pilon…
93 | Paralympic Rugby Player and Coach Joe Delagrave: Defining Yourself
“Rugby is something I think about all the time. But then going like, if it’s gone, am I okay? If it’s ripped away, like my able-bodied football career was, am I okay? In that moment, I wasn’t. I had to ask, who is Joe in this new life in a wheelchair, and what’s my identity?…
92 | Carrie Answers a Question: Louise’s Lament
“I loved the bit in the book where it gave ideas of how to respond to common messages or responses from people. I find it difficult to respond to the two following common comments I get about my injury journey: 1. You’ll come out stronger 2. Your injury means you can concentrate on other things…
91 | Olympic Heptathlete Annie Kunz: Behave Your Way to Success
“I obviously was devastated; there’s no way around it. It hit me really hard, and I kind of allowed myself—I tend to do this when I’m going through something like emotional turbulence or something where I’m upset about something going on with my sport or personal life or whatever—I’m like, okay, I’m gonna give myself…
90 | Carrie Answers a Question: Jennifer’s Journey
“How can you navigate injury when living alone? An initial challenge for me was being alone (no spouse, boyfriend) and close friends not in the same city. Realize this is not the case for most. One of the biggest issues was physical navigation of surroundings on crutches, no one to help, which leaves one…
89 | Olympic High Jumper Priscilla Loomis: Owning Your Narrative
“Every twist and turn, it was obstacles, right? And so for me, all I did was thrive. I learned from those. I realized, I can either take it two ways. I can let it overpower me and I crumble, or I freaking thrive and I rise. So that’s what I did—I took that road.” …