Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today, we've got two nonfiction books for you,

and both of them feature women living the life they thought they were supposed to be living,

but all the while there's a little voice inside them saying, hmm, something's not right here.

In a bit, we'll hear from author and podcast host Glennon Doyle about her

bestselling book, Untamed. But first, Olympic runner Alexei Pappas, surprise, surprise, runs a lot.

But all that running wasn't fixing this thing inside her, her depression. She was crushing all of

these big external goals without ever looking inward.

And she told NPR's Ari Shapiro that being in Olympian, being seen as someone stronger than normal, almost beyond human, made it hard for her to ask for help.

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Alexei Pappas wears a lot of hats.

She's an Olympic runner who ran the 10,000 meters for the Greek national team in Rio.

She's a filmmaker and actor.

Her latest indie rom-com Olympic Dreams was filmed during the 2018 Winter Games.

And now she's also a memoirist. Her new book is called Bravey. Bravy is a word that came about from a poem I wrote, which was run like a bravy, sleep like a baby,

dream like a crazy, replace can't with maybe.

After she tweeted that poem, the word Bravy took on a life of its own, as a battle cry for

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