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Amanda Anisimova made her breakthrough as a 17-year-old!!! at the French Open in 2019 defeating defending champion Simona Halep in the quarterfinals.
Her stardom & rankings grew dramatically as a result of that performance. However, she withdrew from the US Open later that summer following the death of her father, who was also her coach, and she played sparingly the remainder of the season.
Then, as you’ll see in the headline, & personal post to Instagram, in May of 2023, she withdrew from pro tennis completely, to work on her mental health. Imagine that - 21 years old, putting it all on pause…despite being one of the top ranked players in the world.
Now, after months off to work on herself, she has worked herself back, and advanced to Wimbeldon’s semifinals!
In sports, in your career, in life, if it’s needed: Prioritize The Pause!
You don’t fall behind.
You fall forward because you ensure your brain & body have what they need to go back to performing at the highest levels.
Pushing through may appear to be the narrative of the “stronger” path…but it’s not when look at performance. How many careers ended early bc of pushing through (Andrew Luck ring a bell?). How many careers where players declined through their final years or their contract bc they didn’t have anything left to give?
On the flip side - look at stories like this one…and so many others (Olympians who came back to win medals after pausing) who have taken the time to get well, and come back stronger & better than they were before.
It takes a lot of strength to pause & reset…
But then you thrive. In sports, in offices, in life….
Personally, I wish I’d known this. I wouldn’t have grinded without pause for my who pro sports biz career. I likely wouldn’t then have crashed as a result.
But…2.5 years of having to sit on the sideline to work on myself taught me as well - you can come back stronger than you ever were before, no matter how long the pause is needed.
#SameHere #5in5 #Tennis #Wimbeldon #amandaanisimova #USTA #prioritizethepause #burnout #takeabreak #takeapause #refresh
27 girls missing 🥲 bc of the floods!
Thinking of all of those who have been impacted in these flash floods in Central Texas. Prime example of how we don’t need to experience the exact same thing to feel each other’s pain. If you’re a human, and you care about kids, it’s hard to turn away and not feel what these families are going through.
We pray for the safe return of those girls, ages 7-17, currently missing. And for everyone in and around the area who has had to deal with this nightmare. We all can come around in support.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #campmystic #flashfloods #guadaluperiver #kerrcounty #hunttexas #campers #christiancamp
The more things change, the more they stay the same. These SAME slides, we posted on July 4th - of 2023, and sadly still hold true - regardless of who is in office or what decisions are or aren’t being made.
The average length of a new country that’s formed a constitution, abiding by it and sticking to its laws and rules before it’s abolished is 17 years. 17! We are at nearly 250.
Some things for many feel wrong and off and misaligned, still now. And for others feel like they are moving in a productive direction.
It will continue to baffle me that some orgs in this space will not acknowledge this day. Some of them have “America” or “National” IN their names. And the way to skate it is to say: “our staff is off for the holiday weekend.” They acknowledge days like Juneteenth (as they should - how terrible that so many slaves were not freed till 2 years AFTER the emancipation proclamation). That day and providing resources to specific groups on that day should continue! But you can honor that holiday, and this one, and show you care about mental health for ALL (maybe today it’s providing resources for military families) - regardless of belief of political affiliation or level of patriotism.
We have to learn to live together, compromise, acknowledge one big COMMUNITY. A flag of a country shouldn’t signal a “side.” Good/bad/ugly, we are all part OF this country. Let’s work together thru what’s ugly... not cancel what we don’t like/is hard. That’s what’s best for our collective MH.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #july4th #july4thweekend #america #americasbirthday🇺🇸 #americasbirthday
We are fed that challenge gets resolved in this nice simple package, when we watch shows or movies or read books as kids. There’s always some poetic lesson with a clean ending.
That’s not how adulthood happens. It’s a constant ebb and flow of changes….sometimes of the 50 things you’re balancing, 30 are great and 20 are not so great…and then that number flips to 22 are great and 28 are not. And each bucket changes over time, as situations evolve.
It’s how we grow through the painful things that helps us get even close to using those painful moments for purpose. But it takes a lot of work and a lot of understanding that even when some things are great, other things are likely gonna suck…and that’s the pattern of life. And we can grow stronger thru it all if we listen to the lessons they are trying to teach us.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #painintopurpose #thestruggle #overcoming #youcandothis #overwhelm
We have lived in a comparison world online for way too long.
Who has the nicest dress?
Who has the prettiest smile?
Whose dinner seems more impressive?
Whose kids are the cutest?
NONE of those things can be accurately measured. And certainly a like count or an engagement count does not validate that one is “better” than the other. How about the amount of people who go out of their way NOT to like your picture bc of jealousy of how nice you do look in that dress?
Ok, comparison is the their of joy. But now, bc of influencer culture - traumas are being compared?? Reactions to who had it worse?
Here’s the bottom line - there is NO way to compare “levels” of emotional pain from one person to the next. It’s a fruitless endeavor. Let’s drop the comparisons and recognize that what everyone has gone through is valid and impacts them uniquely.
If we support, rather than compare, er are so much stronger and so much healthier. We can do this!
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #comparisonisthethiefofjoy #comparisons #itsnotacompetition
Anyone miss how the last 20 years and tech advancements have torn us apart? And then how folks online here, use that opportunity to keep us in separate buckets even more? I hate it. We hate it.
Gonna be partnering more with orgs and companies and people who believe in holding hands and spreading messages or community and togetherness. We need that now, more than ever. And if we don’t teach it to this next generation, they won’t have a roadmap for how good and healing and meaningful connection CAN be.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #Connection #SavedByTheBell
This stuff has to stop. A fan heckling Jarren Duran from the Red Sox about his suicide attempt..:and now this:
A fan in Chicago for a White Sox/DBacks game started checking Ketel Marte - on the DBacks, about his late mother.
Marte’s mom, Elpidia Valdez, died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in 2017. Marte, who hit a solo home run in the first inning that game, was seen visibly upset during a pitching change in the bottom of the 7th inning. His Manager,Torey Lovullo put his arm around Marte & consoled him.
“I just reacted as a dad would when I went out to change pitchers,” Lovullo said, according to the Arizona Republic. “I could see he was sobbing. It hurt.”
“(I told him): ‘I love you and I’m with you, and we’re all together and you’re not alone. No matter what happens, no matter what was said or what you heard, that guy is an idiot. It shouldn’t have an impact on you.’”
We need more managers and coaches like Lovullo, and fewer fans like this. We don’t get there by pointing them out and scolding. We get there by teaching compassion and common pain. I hope someone’s talking to that fan and asking him what pain he’s felt, that can help him relate to Marte, to where he wouldn’t do this again.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #Marte #ketelmarte #diamondbacks #dbacks #mlb #baseball
To all the men…you’re loved by someone - a family member, a friend - and if you’re lucky, even more than just one or a few. But it often doesn’t feel like that bc of the separation messages/memes/“influencer” post we see here, and are sent via DMs & texts, that confirm biases. We can break through those binaries…through the separations. It’s ok to debate one topic or even have a disagreement & STILL be open about challenges you’re facing with that same person you’re debating.
We are a lot more the same than we are different - bc we all feel pain. Vulnerability is what connects us. And being able to talk about your pain makes you strong…literally the opposite of weak.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5
It takes a lot of trip ups in leadership & a lot of appeasing , before you gain this perspective, but I’ve learned how important it is to work through.
I’m using my career as the backdrop here, but this goes for family dynamics, team sports dynamics, board of directors dynamics, & any place where humans are in a group relationship w each other:
Early on in managing staffs, having a people pleasure background, I thought the path toward harmonious teams - was to recruit good people, look for high character & strong values, & then make sure the little sparks that arose didn’t turn into fires. When someone was upset, I wanted to hear abt it - the issue however, was in the way I wanted to handle that person being upset - appeasing & making things go away, as opposed to encouraging an atmosphere of working thru the the messy parts, together.
You actually don’t know someone until things go wrong. How do they react? What do they do to communicate? Do they take the concerns of others in mind.
But when you’re a leader & you appease & make things go away w policy, you never work on the messy part. People don’t feel need. Silent resentment & distrust, & fear, build.
I’m working w an amazing group of humans now, who remind me of this reality every day. We agree on most things, but not all. We are arnd each other A LOT…so we’re gonna get on each other’s nerves. But, when you foster a dynamics where ppl CAN be upset, voice objections, & STILL know they have a seat at the table (bc disagreements are to be expected) you grow that much closer.
This - building connection thru working thru conflict openly, should be what we aim for in families too. But sadly, too often we default to appeasement before the real change/magic happens. It’s ugly at first, but worth building that kinda culture.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #groupdynamics #conflictresolution #appease #mentalheallth
The shocking news came out late on Tuesday, the 17th, that Celeb Chef Anne Burrell had passed away. She was only 55.
Burrell gained fame thru her appearances on Food Network shows like *Secrets of a Restaurant Chef*, *Worst Cooks in America*, & *Iron Chef America*. Her distinctive personality, culinary expertise, & spiky blonde hair made her a recognizable figure in the culinary world.
I saw the reporting on it. Early - (Wednesday morn) I saw articles (like the one in the 2nd slide ➡️from People) & tweets, where the insinuation was, at only 55, this had to be a suicide. Now, in fairness to the People article, the word “suicide” was not mentioned. However - the key is the insinuation: look at the verbiage. “Was in great spirits…Was so happy.” What are we to believe this is in reference to, if NOT insulating suicide?
You don’t talk about a young person’s night before & their “happiness” if you aren’t leading the reader to believe that passing came from an underlying unhappiness.
But then, so shortly after (Wednesday afternoon), news surfaced, of cardiac arrest. A 911 call. Leaked information. Not a suicide.
In fairness, more may come out. We still don’t know “the” cause. But the chronology of the reporting here & what HAS come out, underscores one of the biggest issues in this space: by NOT reporting on cause of death when there is a suicide or overdose of a public figure (as the standard “best practice”) in most/all cases like this one, w/o greater information released, the ASSUMPTION related to the secret, is that suicide or overdose was at play.
Who then are we protecting; by not reporting on suicide & overdose right away, when we do lose folks that way? The answer is: no one. Not the deceased, not the family. And as you can see in the chat response w AI ➡️ (3rd slide) the secrecy around reporting is hurting the convo, not helping.
#SameHere🤙 #5in5 #anneburrell #chef #celebritychef #foodnetwork #suicideprevention #honestreporting #mentalhealth
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