Molly McCann: Therapy, combat sports, and menstrual cycles
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Being deep in the middle of therapy can be draining. Ultimate Fighting Championship athlete Molly McCann has been working hard to understand her more toxic traits and behaviours, and her vulnerability has made her a stronger fighter.
In this chat with Fearne, Molly talks about how she’s learnt not to fear failure, and how to overcome self-sabotage, as well as the very physical way her trauma has been released. She explains how she knew she wanted to break her family’s pattern of addiction too.
Fearne and Molly also chat about the movement towards female athletes taking their menstrual cycle into consideration during training, and the fickleness of fandom – how we put people on a pedestal only to tear them down again. How can we learn to seek internal rather than external validation?
Molly McCann returns to the Octagon for UFC® 304: Edwards vs Muhammad 2. Tickets for UFC® 304 go on sale at 10am BST on Friday, 7th June via Ticketmaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello it's Fern here popping in quickly before the show because I really want to hear from you. |
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| 0:45.0 | Hello I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that explores different ways of |
| 0:52.1 | healing. |
| 0:53.0 | Today I'm chatting to Molly McCann. |
| 0:55.0 | When I walked at the cage I am fucking free. |
| 0:58.0 | My shackles are off. |
| 1:00.0 | There's been a few times I go to my manager to take them off lad and he just like pretends to take my shackles off and I'm like |
| 1:06.8 | I get to go and be because I'm fluid I am expression that is my purest form that is how Molly McCann knows how to express herself. |
| 1:15.2 | I've got this mantra, I'm too fast, I'm too strong, I'm too fucking good. |
| 1:19.1 | Anyone's life, I touch, I change, I'm dual loss but not today not a fucking day. |
| 1:24.4 | Molly is a long-time veteran of the UFC that's the ultimate fighting championship |
| 1:30.4 | and says combat sports are what gave her confidence in everyday life. |
| 1:35.0 | She's an ambassador for youth charity, Weapons Down, gloves up, |
| 1:39.0 | and is a really vocal supporter of mental health and LGBT-plus awareness which all stems from |
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