How to Learn to Say No

The benefits of boxing

BJJ training with Inglorious Grapplers UK — Photo from the author

If you’ve ever thought that therapy may be worthwhile, but are trepidatious to put a foot through the door, boxing, although unconventional, can be an alternate means of self-discovery through an ironically gentler nudge.

I began boxing because I had a deeply ingrained habit to put other people’s needs above my own, a pattern I developed to survive an…