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This is an important article for both coaches and athletes. I encourage you to take a read. My job, first and foremost is to help you get strong. Physically, and emotionally. It takes a lot of strength to walk away. To change plans. To let go of expectations. To feel your pain and learn from it. To judge yourself based only on how you feel, not on the external metrics of what others are doing. Or the purely imaginary metric of what you think others expect. Because the path to emotional strength is a long one. It involves you being able to assess any task, figure out whether it will help you or harm you, make adjustments on the fly and proceed with your own self-interest as your foremost responsibility. That’s the emotional strength that we build. And it is impressive as hell when people get good at it. It is also something that last a lifetime. Injuries are not accomplishments, but they can be great teachers. They can teach you how to listen, how to redirect, how to rebuild. If you listen. I can teach you that, too. But you have to listen. I will not hurt you. I will not let you use me to hurt yourself. I will help you. Using whatever means I have. Even if it means taking a break, so you can listen to your body. alyssaroyse.wordpress/2014/07/20/why-i-kicked-an-athlete-out-of-my-box/