If I can go through hell and back and find success and happiness, so can you. Rise up out of the ashes like a phoenix.

We can argue which factors are to blame until we are blue in the face but these are the main issues.

In this piece I reflect on my stepfather and his impact on me, trying to understand how a person who loved his children so much could also inadvertently created a great deal of difficulty and strife in their lives.

Sometimes we get so caught up in the physical nature of training we forget about the other impacts it has.