#8 What Helped John Wall Get Through The Darkest Time Of His Life

This past week the NBA player John Wall came out and expressed how he had suicidal thoughts the last few years dealing with the death of his mom, grandmother and rehabbing from a torn achilles and knee injury. In this episode Jono talks about how grief can affect an athlete in so many different ways but not only when dealing with death but with being traded, recovering from a career threatening injury and etc. In addition, Jono touches on the advantage an athlete has when seeing a mental health professional when facing these obstacles and how a therapist can alter the emotional, mental and spiritual state of an athlete for the better.