“We tend to … tell ourselves that we’re not good enough or we’re not as good as these other people around us that we see, whether it’s on social media or at work or the gym. … We tend to be our own worst critic and put ourselves down. … We all have really valuable experiences, we have really valuable ideas and knowledge, and we should be proud of that.”
Julie Foucher, four-time CrossFit Games athlete and family physician.
Since International Women’s Day CrossFit has been releasing a series of short documentaries (less than five minutes each for all my busy people in the world) under the title, We the Women.
The initial piece centered on the question, what would you tell your younger self? And since then there have been three individual stories highlighting Julie Foucher, Jennifer Hunter-Marshall, and Amy Bream. Each of these women offer a uniquely valuable perspective on life, sport, and the psychology of simply being human. All of the videos are free on YouTube, and the CrossFit landing page for more articles and information is here.
If our lives have crossed in conversation about fitness–or identity or visibility in sport–you may have heard me share that CrossFit has helped me make sense of a lot of the things that I couldn’t make sense of with wrestling because of the visibility and storytelling. From not seeing much at all about women in a sport that I love (wrestling), to trying to remedy it, and then coming to CrossFit in the in-between: these things that I didn’t have language for I’ve now been able to identify and address for healthy growth. These topics, visibility, and storytelling is a major win for sports.
I am highly recommending this series for all people, but especially for the women and girls that follow my posts.
All the love in life through sport,
GLK
