Identity, injury and igniting the passion for life with Tori Wood. I first came across Tori Wood who’s an elite mountainbiker in Squarmish through a short film “Reflection” that looked at her jounrey coming from a competitive gymnastic background that left her struggling with her mental helth, unfortunatly a narrative that is too common. She traded her late nights partying for mountain biking and excelled. She changed her perspective around competition to find a healthy way to nagigate it and has since become a counsellor helping others with a sports focused an integrative approach. We spoke about identity and the fear associated with leaving an unhealthy identity and not knowing what the new one will be as well as how injury can challenge your idea of idenity. We discuss the tricky nagivation around competition and finding compassion rather than getting caught up in comparison and what we can control in a given situtaion. We delve into acceptance and attitude and notitcing with social media how much and what information we allow in. We end the conversation with an important question- what is your why, and asking is what you are currently doing fullfilling that why.You can find Tori Wood on socials here, or her website for her counselling services here where she does one-on-one counselling with individuals struggling with mental health issues and virtual coaching sessions. Thanks for reading Elise’s Substack! Subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit elisemarcianti.substack.com