![]() I deserve to know what my soul and body need to be happy and laugh, just as you deserve to know. There is no one that knows how to spend mental health days, weeks, and months better than myself. ![]() There is no one that knows how to find peace, better than myself. I realize there is no one that knows me better than myself to listen to my gut and actually follow it. ![]() I realized anxiety has been part of my genetics for my entire life. Nowadays, adulting after professional basketball, I still wake up painfully slow, but I’ve realized there is something waiting for me. photo credit: thanks nintendo and glass joe The life I knew disappeared and any time I tried to do something that didn’t align with me, anxiety knocked me out like Glass Joe. The truth is, I had to go and find where my soul wanted and needed to be.īut even then, armed with that talisman, my weird was lost. My brain was full of high-level static, panic set in at any and all times of the day, and my body was constantly full of adrenaline for a fight it didn’t have in front of it. Anxiety hit me, knocked me down like Glass Joe in Mike Tyson’s Punch-out three years ago. Certain days, when I think back about my career that started in Northern Michigan and all that I put into it, my eyes cringe and fill up with tears.īut what I don’t have a soft spot for is paralysis by analysis. Those feelings and questions, I understand and empathize with, because when my 14-year sports career ended, a part of me had no answers. I read a study that University of Maryland Medical Center and California’s Loma Linda University that found that people who laugh more and have a sense of humor are less likely to develop heart disease and have lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone.īut what happens when your life purpose changes? When you retire at 65 and have nothing to look forward too? When you pivot careers (again)? When you have no motivation because there is no grand curiosity to wake you up? I found ways to laugh at my own stubbornness and practice happiness to get myself going. I found ways to succeed despite my incessant knack for wanting more sleep. Since I was a kid, I woke up fighting morning consciousness like whoa.īut hoop dreams always motivated me to get up and start moving. But even before my pro career, yes, my mom will tell you the same. Most of my days as a pro athlete, most of my teammates will tell you, I woke up painfully slow. THIS IS A HABIT WE DEVELOP, not a God-given talent we wake up having. Not everyone knows they are special and that’s because being weird and feeling special is a daily personal practice.
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