I should have known that if I wanted my body to be the best it could be, I needed to take care of it with self-care and massage. For me, being on the field was what I wanted, and I did not want to “waste time” taking care of myself. Lack of self-care caused me to be constantly tired with overworked muscles, which negatively affected my performance and strength on the field.

I have found that yoga supports a space between myself and my thoughts. Through mindful breathing and movement, yoga helps to clear a space for me to connect to the part of me that is able to respond instead of react. In this space I connect to self-respect and my respect for others. 

Did you know that your subconscious mind is a place where ideas and statements can’t be evaluated for truth? This part of your mind simply accepts whatever it is told. When we hear negative things about ourselves or about life in general as children, we simply believe those statements as truth. As we grow older, if we don’t do some inner work to rewrite these statements with the truth, they tend to stick with us. How do we go about rewriting the untruths?