Simone Biles nurtured a pre-game routine. The secret? A fine balance of mental tuning and physical revving-up.
The 59-year-old host highlighted that Biles, 27, seems much more open about her mental health journey than she did when she made her first appearance at the Olympics in 2016.
“You don’t bury things anymore. You speak them out loud. You talk about therapy, where you are, where you’re going. Tell me about this part of you,” Kotb asked.”
I’ve always tried to stay authentic to myself, so I feel like the new me, I’m a little bit older, more mature, so just being unapologetically me,” the world champ responded.
“I feel a lot more free, especially going to therapy and doing those sessions so that physically and mentally I feel better, and I know that’s an important part of my routine,” Biles added. “So just staying on top of that, it lightens the load a lot.”
