Alex Tarnava

But at first, when I lost that identity, you know, with my strength and my physical strength was part of my identity.

It also collapsed my body and my will.

with it.

And I started drinking and I started eating poorly and I put on a hundred pounds and became basically an alcoholic.

Now I wasn't follower drunk every day, but I was drinking a bottle or two of wine every day.

That's going to slow down your, your mind.

So it broke me down in so many capacities.

And

When I kind of crawled out of the abyss, then I just kind of hung out at the edge.

I didn't go back to climb and become stronger again.

But as I climbed out, I noticed that the world was a little bit different than I remembered it.

That we were pathologizing the pursuit of strength as evil and toxic, that people were getting weaker and more sensitive and all these things.

And

it hit me hard because I had become weaker and more sensitive.

And I realized that the only way back was to fix myself.

I needed to fix my health.

I needed to fix my mind and I needed to fix my purpose.

And that's what this book is about because it's all connected.

So on the one cover, you have the mind on the other cover, you have the body.

They're inverted.