Retiring From Sport Can Feel Like a Death Nobody Acknowledges: Kelsey Gannett on Grieving the Athlete You Were

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Dec 26, 2023 · 37m

For years, your schedule, your body, your friendships, and your sense of who you are were all organized around one thing. Then it ends, and the people around you expect you to move on to the “real world” as if nothing was lost. Most retired athletes never get permission to grieve, so the loss goes unspoken and the identity underneath it goes unrebuilt. Kelsey Gannett, a coach based in Northern Virginia who works with athletes through this transition, joins Stacey Chillemi to talk about the grief that follows retirement from athletic organizations and what it takes to move into professional…