Overcoming Depression and Improving Mental Health | Olympic Runner, Alexi Pappas

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Alexi Pappas, an Olympic runner and an award-winning actor and writer.

A Greek-American, Alexi is the Greek national record holder in the 10,000 meters.

She graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and also ran for the University of Oregon as a 5th year, leading the team to two NCAA victories.

Alexi has been profiled on the cover of the New York Times Sports Page, in Rolling Stone, on NPR's All Things Considered, and was also featured on the cover of Runner's World Magazine's 50th anniversary issu, named as one of the two faces of the "new boom" in running.

Her memoir-in-essays, "Bravey," with a foreword by Maya Rudolph was just released – and it’s the reason I wanted to have this conversation.

Now more than ever – mental health is at the forefront of what so many of us are dealing with.

My hope is that Alexi’s story – one of overcoming depression and seeing a grander version of what her future could look like can help you or a loved one get through any challenges of your own.

This is not an easy time... but maybe… this conversation inspires you, that you have more inside you, and reminds you that you’re not alone in this.

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0:00.0	If they knew what I knew, the world would go to the word useful a lot more often.
0:05.6	That's a word that I actually learned from my psychiatrist when I was really sick, which was
0:10.2	he had me focus, one, on my actions, actions but two to decide what actions whether it's like what do I do today or what do I do with my life to to think about that word what is useful and that word is like a guiding light is like pretty useful. The word
0:26.0	useful is useful. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais, and by Trade and Training, I am a sport and
0:44.8	performance psychologist. Now the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these
0:49.0	conversations is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery.
0:53.8	Now what does that mean? It means that they have spent years understanding the nuances
1:00.9	of either self or craft or both.
1:05.0	And you know I love the ones where it's a combination of both,
1:08.0	where people are using their craft to better understand what it means to be human,
1:12.0	what it means to be fully alive, and they're using themselves to understand the human experience.
1:18.0	And really, when we strip it down, we're going to get to the mental skills.
1:22.0	We're going to understand what are those kind of
1:24.4	block and tackling mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft, but underneath,
1:28.8	what are they searching for? How do they organize their inner life? How do they make sense of difficult events?
1:35.0	And of course, like I said, what are the skills that they use to pivot and adjust?
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