People who come to see me are:

• Athletes who have taken to managing chaotic emotional lives with structure and physical exertion. 

Perhaps you are…

o  Interested in the self-talk you notice as you push yourself physically.

o  Realizing that athletics offers you something that feels helpful, but fear that physical exertion is starting to become an insufficient way of tolerating or managing your emotions.

o  Worried that you make use of physical exertion to overcome or mask your emotional life.

o  Curious if you could make room to sit with or tolerate your emotions rather than having to work to “overcome” them.

CASSIDY SMITH, LMFT99731 IS AN OAKLAND THERAPIST.