Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Do fighters have unresolved issues? #miketyson #mentalhealth #emdr #therapy #podcastclips

8 Sept 2023 · 0 min

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A short YouTube podcast clip (hosts: Leland and another speaker) discussing why contact/violent sports often avoid therapies like EMDR and neurofeedback because treating athletes' unresolved trauma may reduce their aggressiveness. The speakers reference a Mike Tyson interview clip where Tyson dismisses his boxing belts and calls himself "a broken man chasing the wrong kind of dream," illustrating emotional harm behind athletic success.

One of the reasons why contact sports and violent sports don't embrace things like EMDR and neurofeedback is that once those guys get their demons under better control and some of the rage and anger that they have inside out in a positive way and they really release some of that negative emotion.
Yeah, they actually.
Don'T do their job of hitting people and damaging other people as well.
I just had a full body chill 3, 4 days ago. I saw a clip of Mike Tyson talking and the interviewer had all of his championship belts out on the table and he said, wow, aren't you proud of yourself? All these gold belts? And he's like, no, this is all bullshit. I don't about any of this. I was a broken man chasing the wrong kind of dream.
Wow.
So literally, his anger, his vitriol, going to jail, drugs, alcohol, everything, it was all driven by his lack of inner peace. So it's such a paradox, Leland.