I sustained a high-grade tear to the MCL on my left knee this past summer. While initially it was devastating – requiring me to take a three-month break from figure skating – I worked hard to find a silver lining. I discovered two off-ice exercises on my road to recovery that not only helped maintainContinue reading “MCL Tear Recovery: Off-Ice Exercises for Figure Skaters (and all athletes!)”
Tag Archives: Overcoming Adversity
A Dream Takes Flight: Aspen Bound!
Soon graduation was upon me and I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree. Having decided that this new, post-graduation chapter of my life would be focused on formal training in figure skating, I commenced a search for a new figure skating coach. Once I found the right coach, I planned to pack up and moveContinue reading “A Dream Takes Flight: Aspen Bound!”
A Dream Takes Off
After ten months of successful treatment for my illness, I was able to return to my university for my final semester of college. Ironically, even more exciting to me than being healthy enough to resume my life as a student was the fact that I was returning to school with a pair of figure skatesContinue reading “A Dream Takes Off”
A Dream Reawakens
Several years after the visit to the Broadmoor Skating Club,* I sat in a hospital as my parents filled out paperwork to admit me for inpatient treatment. I had just withdrawn from college to seek treatment for an illness. Life was no longer recognizable to me, devoid of all structure, definition, and predictability. A fewContinue reading “A Dream Reawakens”
Finding Balance on the Edge: Figure Skating & Travel Journeys by Carolyn Tir 