Tiptoe We Grow

"The single-minded focus of an Olympian, so instrumental to breaking records and achieving athletic success, can prove destructive in the face of life choices that follow. In the aftermath, most athletes don’t know where or how to redirect their focus, while the people who helped manage every element of their professional life are no longer responsible for helping them."

Olympians are super fit. That doesn’t mean we’re healthy I thought I knew what was good for me, but as I transitioned to real life, I had to strive for balance rather than excellence

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"It’s a kind of psychological fascism that can take over the sufferer’s mind, draining their world of colour and light, spontaneity and joy".

I’m a recovering perfectionist. Here’s how I embraced the joy of ‘good enough’ The pursuit of perfection is a kind of prison. As a psychotherapist, I know how it can drain a person’s world of colour, light and spontaneity

We are working to evolve an inner environment where we can surround states of constriction with spaciousness, ease of heart and kindness.

Meditation doesn't replace action.

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

~ "The Sun" by Mary Oliver