Mental Health Awareness Week - Dame Kelly Holmes

Destination Tokyo

English - May 07, 2021 06:30 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB
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This episode features an interview with Dame Kelly Holmes from the Her Spirit Podcast. Details below. Dame Kelly talks frankly about the mental health issues she has faced and the self-harming she was carrying out in the year before her historic gold medal winning performances in Athens in 2004. She continued to self-harm until 2017.

There are some powerful and heartfelt words from Kelly who shares the highs and the the lows of a phenomenal career as an athlete.

This interview was first aired and can be heard in full on the Her Spirit Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/cy/podcast/double-olympic-champion-dame-kelly-holmes-talks-about/id1472162816?i=1000480912724

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