Tag: depression
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Podcast Episode: Angela Lee Pucci’s Fight Story | A Mental Health Revolution
From Athlete Mindset Spotify Channel: In this episode of Athlete Mindset, host Lisa Bonta Sumii, LCSW, CMPC, shares space with Angela Lee Pucci, a retired professional MMA fighter, six-time MMA world champion, and founder of Fight Story. Angela opens up about her journey from the world of combat sports to becoming a mental health advocate.…
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Finding a Solution Powerful Enough to Give Me a Better life
I first started Muay Thai as a way to overcome trauma. When I was 19, I was sexually assaulted by a family member who I had grown up with and knew well. I only told my parents 6 years later when I was 25, due to suppressing the memory and using a lot of things…
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I Was Born in a Cult, Cut off from the World Until Age 14
I was born in a cult and as far as I can remember I was always told to believe that the world was going to end and I would not go into the rapture if certain things were not done. I was not allowed to wear Jeans, or T-shirts, or shorts. As a kid, I…
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My Gym Community is Like Second Family
At 2 years old my father stabbed my mother behind the ear and nearly killed her. At 5 years old, I was molested by a babysitter. When I was 10, my mother started getting into heavy drinking and drugs. She became neglectful and abusive. This would lead me down a path of being molested again,…
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Rewriting My Own Narrative and Becoming an Agent of Change for Others
My name is Christina, born in Melbourne Australia from Vietnamese parents who immigrated to Australia by boat. Today I would describe myself as full of life, beautiful inside and out and resilient. In 2021, I was able to become a graduate of my degree in youth work which led me to become a disability support…
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I was a Quiet Teenager with a Massive Identity Crisis
Today, I am a soon to be 42 year old woman. I have been in martial arts of some description one or another since I was 8 and it has always held a place in my soul that is indescribable. It started with karate as a child, something my mum put me into to gain…
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I Hear the Demons but I Can Carry On
I started out boxing in 2015 in graduate school and I really got into it. I didn’t realize over the next three years how much it would dictate my life as I would become more restrictive with my eating. I could never be satisfied with my figure. I wasn’t happy, so in 2018 I stopped…
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We Broke Through the Chains Holding Us Back
Aloha, My name is Hazel-Rose Kamaka’ona’onaokamalani Nāhi‘ena‘ena and I am a survivor of Domestic Abuse / Sexual Abuse for 17yrs, & Rape my Highschool senior year. I have fought all my life as a Boxer / MMA fighter, but my hardest battles were mental, spiritual, & emotional. I have suffered from PTSD, Anxiety, & Depression,…
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Again and Again, I Rebuild, Restart and Reprogram
When I first picked up combat sport. I practiced it with the intention of strengthening my mind, willpower and unwavering desire, so that no matter what emotions I would feel, my mind could overcome it.Especially a mind that is constantly tempted by some of the 7 deadly sin.I was bullied, constantly, when i was a…
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I Felt like I was Still Breathing but Not Alive Anymore
My story begins in 2020. Although I had an upbringing that included its fair share of abuse, abandonment and molestation, and panic attacks, it wasn’t until the pandemic year that I started to realize how it all really affected me. When I began seeing video after video of people who were the same color as…
