GRITTY PRETTY
In Gritty Pretty's March 2022 issue, entrepreneur and podcast host, Turia Pitt, opens up about her journey back to self-confidence after she was caught in a grass fire during a 100km ultramarathon in 2011.
“Rather than thinking about the catastrophe, I would channel my focus on what I had to do that day and what I could control and achieve,” she says of the weeks that followed the fire. “I would just practice changing my focus.”
“There’s this culture of toxic positivity now-a-days, where if something bad happens to us we’ve just got to kill it with positivity and everything will turn out well. But we’re missing a crucial step of just acknowledging that something terrible happened, grieving and allowing yourself to just be for a moment.”
Read the full cover story on GrittyPretty.com.au.