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Overcome Your Greatest Obstacles - Lessons on Grit, Grace, and Mental Health | World Champion Obstacle Racer, Amelia Boone

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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Overcoming Internalized Labels

The speaker faced challenges of being compared to other kids by parents, leading to internalizing a feeling of inadequacy. This culminated in a diagnosis of anorexia at 16 and years of treatment. In their mid-20s, a conscious decision was made to shed the identity of a 'broken individual.' Engaging in obstacle racing and sports became a tool to challenge and prove to themselves that they were not defined by the past. The speaker deliberately avoided discussing their struggle as a way to distance from their old narrative and embraced activities that helped in overcoming internalized labels of being 'broken.'

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