For a number of years my writing has centred around running and ‘TheRunninger’ has been my vehicle to publish this writing, previously on my blog and more recently on these pages. Running has been my passion and outlet for many years, my way of measuring my own progress both physically and mentally.
My recent diagnosis of SVT has shifted my relationship to running. While I’m still running regularly this diagnosis has required me to slow down and learn to respect my body in a new way. With this has come a growing feeling that I no longer have the same right to write about running the way I used to. When writing about running I have felt like a fraud. If I’m not out there practising what I preach anymore, how can I write about this activity.
However I still have a burning desire to share my thoughts and expertise. I’ve decided to make a change and rebrand these pages in the coming days in a new way.
Alongside my qualifications in psychology and my experience in performance environments, I have been building a new framework that hopes to guide people perform in any sport or in life. It’s certainly still relevant for running. I call it the BRAVE Performance Platform.
BRAVE Performance is an acronym for Belief, Resilience, Adaptability, Vision, and Energy. It’s these principles I’ve leaned on through my own challenges. And I hope these principles can help others find structure, clarity, resilience and their best self. These are the lessons I have learnt from a long history of running and studying the psychology of high performance.
So this page will no longer be predominantly about running. It will focus on personal growth, mindset, habit building and performance. I hope to inspire the five key principles of being BRAVE that are all essential to showing up and performing at your best in sport or life.
The lessons I’ve learnt through running will always be part of my story. But no longer the whole story.
#beBRAVE
