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How to move beyond your athletic peak as your primary identity

I played Division I volleyball and peaked at nineteen and fifteen years later I still introduce myself as a former college athlete.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Past achievement has become a static identity rather than one chapter in an evolving life story.

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