***Warning: Extremely Long post**** As human beings, we tend to avoid discomfort because it is well...uncomfortable. Early on in my recovery I had a therapist tell me to set a timer for 30 minutes whenever I felt triggered to binge. If after running the timer down I still felt the need to use those behaviors then so be it. She was right to suggest it because after waiting it out I almost never felt the need to use those behaviors. In those 30 minute periods I learned to acknowledge the thoughts, feelings, and situations that made me uncomfortable and panicked in the first place and let them come. I learned how to feel disappointment, anger, and fear without the need to dull it down with food, my drug of choice. The lesson I learned from that therapist about not running from discomfort helped me to grow as a person and carried over into other parts of my life. During senior year of collegiate lacrosse, and later crossfit, I started approaching my run tests, conditioning sessions, and workouts with with that mentality of embracing discomfort. So now instead of planning ways to game the system to avoid the discomfort that comes with training hard, I now entered workouts with the mindset of, "This is going to hurt. Let it!" β’ β’ β’ #outsideyourcomfortzone #comfortzone #findaway #crossfitgirls #chooserecovery #edrecovery #daretobeexceptional #crossfit #motivation #growthmindset
