Dr. Stephanie Arel, our guest author, brings over 20 years of clinical experience working with trauma survivors, combined with her own practice as a CrossFit athlete. She’s not claiming CrossFit replaces therapy. She’s observing that for some people, done thoughtfully and ideally alongside professional support, CrossFit offers something talk therapy alone cannot: a way to rebuild trust in the body through challenge, community, and movement.
This is exploratory work. It raises as many questions as it answers. The podcast interview with Arel dug into many of the concerns, risks, and limitations of this approach, so please listen if you’d like to know more.
Read the complete piece, "Discovering CrossFit as Trauma Recovery: Part 1," on
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