Anna Cockrell - NCAA Champion Explains Mental Health Struggles & Painful Pursuit to Perfection

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Anna Cockrell is a highly decorated USC Track & Field star. She is an All-American hurdler and sprinter, a defending NCAA champion, and currently holds records for several events. Not only is she an incredible athlete, bust she also finished her undergraduate with a 3.98 cumulative GPA, the highest of any student-athlete at USC. However, with great success also comes immense pressure to perform both mentally and physically. In today’s episode, Anna gets real about performance anxiety, the pressures of perfectionism, and opens up about the accident that cost her team the 2019 NCAA championship.

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0:00.0	And that's something like, I'm still learning
0:02.1	and still dealing with because I don't like to go to therapy
0:05.4	when I feel good.
0:06.6	Like I don't wanna go in there and be like,
0:08.4	oh, let's unpack all this stuff from my life.
0:12.0	Like no, I feel great, like I'm fine.
0:14.6	And that's something that I definitely have to work through.
0:16.6	Like it took me a long time to accept depression
0:20.6	and being something that I associate with myself
0:23.1	because I didn't want to say it.
0:24.7	I didn't wanna identify with it.
0:26.6	For me, it felt like that's something that happens
0:28.5	to like other people.
0:30.0	Not that there's anything wrong with people.
0:31.4	It happens too, but I was like, that's not me.
0:36.8	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod.
0:39.2	I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O. and athlete
0:41.6	and mental health and body and the javakin.
0:44.0	Every Wednesday, I'll be bringing you awesome guests,
0:46.8	weekly inspiration and the realist conversations
0:50.0	around everything and anything.
0:52.4	Now let's get real.
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