Warrick Wood: Frankie to the Rescue - R4R 318
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Warrick Wood’s son, Frankie, passed away from brain cancer when he was just three years old. Nothing can take away the pain of that loss, but running and what he’s learned as a sports psychologist have helped Warrick to deal with his grief.
He shares his experience in the hope that it will help not only those who have lost a loved one, but also the friends and family who want to support them, but may not know how to do so. He and his wife have also established a charity, Frankie to the Rescue, to support families who have a child with a terminal illness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people. |
| 0:23.6 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:27.8 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, we are here to connect |
| 0:32.7 | with others who see running as the common thread that weaves our lives together. |
| 0:37.0 | Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello my friends and welcome to episode 318 of the Running for Real podcast. |
| 0:51.9 | Thank you for joining me today. I'm excited that you are here and excited to share with you a |
| 0:57.2 | guest who has a lot of professional background, a lot of impressive experience and credentials |
| 1:06.7 | to his name. But today, he is going beyond those. He's talking about something very personal to |
| 1:13.6 | him, something heartbreaking and tragic. And on that note, I want to add a bit of a trigger warning |
| 1:19.2 | to this. We do talk about a child passing away and the pain that comes along with that. So if this |
| 1:25.1 | is something very vulnerable, very close to your heart, you may want to listen to this with someone |
| 1:30.2 | or just be aware that you may want to do what's best for your health if you need to. |
| 1:35.0 | Now today we are talking to a lecturer of sport and exercise psychology. He's a sports psychology |
| 1:41.7 | mental skills coach. He's a consultant that works with various New Zealand athletes in the |
| 1:47.5 | performance psychology space. I'm excited to welcome Warwick Wood to the episode. Now Warwick is |
| 1:53.7 | going to talk about losing his son, Frankie, when he was three years old. And I thought this |
| 2:00.4 | would be a good episode. Actually, Warwick reached out to me, I should say, to share about his story. |
| 2:05.1 | He had actually written in the tracksmith journal recently about loss, about grief, about how we |
| 2:11.2 | can support those are going, who are going through grief and how we ourselves can get through grief. |
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