By Peg Streep — 2017
Taking a close look at the elephant hidden in plain sight.
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By linking their value to approval from others, they are searching outside of themselves in order to feel good and worthy.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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Through the size of her platform, however, and her decision to choose well-being over pursuit of a Grand Slam title, Osaka offers the promise of bringing mental health awareness—both inside and outside of sports—to an entirely new level.