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The youngest of 3 siblings, I had an unremarkable childhood with strict, loving parents. Following in the footsteps of my older brother, I fell in love with hockey and spent my early teenage years traveling from arena to arena.
(Then) one cold New Year’s day, while driving me to a hockey game, I noticed my Dad rubbing his left arm. Suddenly, he fell into my lap and as the car veered into the ditch I felt him take his last breath. My dad was gone.
After my dad’s funeral I felt numb and detached. While my mother grieved the loss of the love of her life, I had no idea how to process the emotions and grief I was feeling.
As men, our culture neither teaches, allows nor gives us permission to cry, grieve or process many of our emotions.
So I did the only thing I knew how to do – play hockey. My dad and I had talked about me earning a hockey scholarship, and after a lot of early morning practices and hard work I received a scholarship. After four years of long bus rides and sustaining physical injuries, my focus began to shift.
David Lawson Vroom Vroom Veer Stories
- Grew up ice skating on a lake in the Toronto area, lived in the same area as some famous Canadians
- Was on a fast track at the age of 15 playing hockey at the “Junior” level where school classes become secondary to practice/travel/hockey games
- His father died on his lap while driving to a hockey game; didn’t have the tools to deal with grief and loss so he just numbed that emotional pain
- He double-down on being a High-Achiever never thinking about emotions or self care until finally he was so exhausted that he couldn’t do it anymore
- Googled Business Retreat and found a 10-day retreat at the Chopra Center in SoCal; fell in love with meditation on his first try; experienced Ayurvedic Massage, meditaiton and yoga and felt amazing
- Through these experiences he started to look at the emotions that he had been numbing since age 15 and his emotional and physical health slowly started to improve
- Visited India for further treatments twice and also received acupuncture from a Chinese medicine doctor near home; this same doctor suggested Qigong as a way to do maintenance without needles
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