WHY I TRI
I didn't really have a relationship with sport growing up. As a kid, I didn't have great hand-eye coordination, was kind of lanky and awkward. I got teased for being gay before I even knew I was gay myself. The first time I really stepped foot in a gym was in my mid-20s.
of something called exposure therapy, which was part of my For me, the OCD was related to pandemics, germs, contamination, freak accidents and mortality. I've had it since I was a kid and it had a big impact on my life. When the pandemic hit, it was like all my worst fears coming true, because things that I'd been doing and was being told weren't rational were all of a sudden being normalised.
