Starting out this week thinking about sustainable motivation and drive. I’ve always been a hungry athlete. An athlete who could cry because I wanted “it” so badly. I’m not even sure that I always knew what “it” was. And recently, I’ve been thinking about the both/and nature of hunger- how hunger for new experiences and new adventures can inspire us to go places we would never go otherwise. How hunger can become this totally overwhelming, devastating thing. At its best, hunger helps us stay in the game long enough to learn. At its worst, hunger makes us into little hangry crag monsters who no one wants to be around. I’ve been in this wild place this summer of balancing a sense of urgency with a craving to create space for moments of giggling with a family member that I am caring for, for splashing in rain puddles with clients, and for truly enjoying how silly it is to kick my feet above my head in 16 different configurations before realizing that the beta is to stay upright and toe in 😉 And I wonder what I am learning in all of it? About being a human in a world that has all kinds of things to feel a sense of urgency around and about learning to exist in that sense of urgency in a way that I feel proud of. #mentaltraining #mentalhealth #freemind #strongbacksoftfrontwildheart #transathletesbelonginsport