Turning Trauma into Olympic Glory w/ Alexi Pappas

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Olympian Alexi Pappas opens up to Rainn Wilson about how childhood trauma shaped her journey to the 2016 Olympics and beyond. She explores the complex relationship between emotional pain, perfectionism, and achievement, discussing post-Olympic depression and the unexpected pressures that follow reaching the pinnacle of success. Alexi shares personal stories about her mother's suicide and the role of sports in her healing, while offering insights into how visualization and resilience can help us navigate life’s challenges. This conversation dives deep into the human experience, making it a must-watch for anyone interested in mental health, high performance, and overcoming adversity. Thank you to our sponsors! Pique Tea (15% OFF!): https://piquelife.com/SOUL Squarespace: https://squarespace.com/soulboom Waking Up app (1st month FREE!): https://wakingup.com/soulboom Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Spring Green Films Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:30.1	You're listening to Soul Boom. Trauma is an engine. I mean, it gives you a vague ambition at the very least.
0:39.3	It is energized.
0:41.2	I don't know if it has direction specific in the material world, but you will find it.
0:47.3	So I lost my mom young.
0:49.5	She took her own life.
0:50.7	So I latched on to the Olympics because I was good at sports.
0:55.5	And it was a way to definitely matter. Like I wanted to be indispensable to something. When nobody talked to me about her,
1:02.3	it just felt like I didn't matter enough for her to stay. And that's a childish thing to think,
1:08.4	but that's just how it felt when I was six and went to the
1:12.0	1996 Olympics and saw the Olympians and said, I want to be that so that people, I have a
1:18.8	place in this world and a credential that will not be taken away from me.
1:26.1	Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.
1:30.6	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.
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