Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. This is up on game where I introduce you to some new idea, some new concept, tool, book, resource, anything, flavor of ice cream. Just something that I'm into that I want to share with you because I care about you and I want you to know about it. All. All people have been

through some type of trauma in their life. It could be something as little as getting made

fun of when you're in class to something as big as going to a war or having your mom die when

you were five or being raped or being put in a situation where you see someone die.

Human beings go through crazy shit.

It's just a fact of life.

And how to really get through it is really, really, really challenging.

And I say that because I've been through my versions of trauma.

To some people, my trauma might not be that big.

To some people it might be bigger.

And I've also known people, people who I love and very close to who have been through

really, really traumatic things, much more traumatic than things that I've been through.

And I've seen and I've watched

and personally experienced how difficult it can be for them to get through that. Even how

difficult it can be for someone like me who is with someone who has gone through trauma, how

difficult it can be. And so the question becomes, how do we deal with that trauma? Now, I'm not going to give you

some long, drawn out method for how to deal with this, that, and the third. I've talked in more

detail on other episodes about certain things, but what I do want to share with you is something,

something that has helped me have a lot of breakthroughs on the emotional level

and deal with a lot of the emotional trauma that I didn't even know that I had and didn't know

how to deal with. And it might seem kind of weird, but this is what it is. Parenting books. So you guys know I have five kids.

And naturally, you know, I'm someone who wants to do things well. So if I have a task, I want to

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