Imagine for a second that you found yourself lost in the middle of a vast mountainous forest. Doesn’t matter how you got here, just know that you’re lost and you have nothing but the clothes on your back and your sharpened mind thrown into survival mode. What do you do? How do you get un-lost? […]
How many days do you have left on this earth? On that note, how many more seasons do you have left as an athlete? On average most people live to be around 80 years old. Which means if you’re in your early 20’s you’ve already used up around a quarter of your time (that’s only […]
Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? I did it one time, but I doubt I’ll ever do it again. I was heading home from university and was just about to enter the freeway before I saw a guy politely standing there with his thumb out. And maybe because it was late and I felt […]
I don’t like pain. Both physical and mental. It sucks to sprain an ankle, to lose a game, to go through a breakup, or to experience the death of someone close to you. And as much as we want to avoid these forms of pain, they are inevitable. Real suffering cuts through all the crap. […]
In the world of psychotherapy, there is a practice known as Exposure Therapy. This is a common exercise for treating many anxiety disorders and phobias that people are plagued with. These can be simple things like the fear of shaking someone’s hand or, more commonly seen, the fear of public speaking. As a means of […]