I am an athlete. I am a tennis player. I play tennis—not professionally today, but one day, yes: that could be my reality. My body is strong, and I have been waiting a very long time to get to this point: the point where I can write about what I am facing, what I am working through—in the gym, on the tennis court, in the Core Energetics practitioner chair (as a student), and as a man, and where all of this intertwines. There is a center somewhere.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you.