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"Not every day is going to be rainbows and butterflies" - Tara Davis-Woodhall opens up on therapist's advice amid challenging athletics career
Tara Davis-Woodhall, who won gold in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, opened up about overcoming daily challenges with help from her therapist on January 21, 2025.
She and her husband, Paralympic gold medalist Hunter Woodhall, have a YouTube channel, Tara and Hunter, where she shared her therapist's advice on managing her daily routine.
“I talked to my therapist about of like I have so much going on in my track world and I have so much going on in my personal world. It's like when I talk to my therapist about that and she's like you're just a human dude like you got to just take it day by day not every day is going to be perfect not every day is going to be rainbows and butterflies," she said.
She continued:
"And you have a smile on the face, but for me my win is just getting out of the bed. Like there was times where I was stuck in my bed for hours and weeks and days like I just did not want to get up and for me making my bed every morning that helps me start my day on the right foot.”
The couple’s YouTube channel, Tara and Hunter, has over 900,000 subscribers. Tara Davis-Woodhall set a collegiate record at the 2021 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays and won the national long jump championship in February 2023.
Tara Davis-Woodhall on her journey of mental health and unlocking her focus
Tara Davis-Woodhall has emerged as one of the top athletes in the Olympics and in the World Championship she secured a silver medal. She recently shared her focus technique and how she handled her nerves moments before securing her Olympic trials.
“This year, I've been working on my mental health, and I've learned that you don't have to worry about what coach says. You've done the training. You've got this. So, now it's, I'm hyping my mind up. And when I was at one of my competitions, it was one of the most stressful competitions. It was Olympic trials."
She continued:
"I scratched two jumps, and I was just in therapy, literally hours before going to compete and she was like, 'Tara I want you to do this exercise when you're on the runway or when you're feeling stressed. Inhale what you want, exhale what you don't want.'"
She further continued,
“So when I'm on the runway, I'm about to take off and I inhale, and I'm like breath in confidence, and exhale fear. And when I took off, I hit a jump and I made the Olympic team. It was incredible.”
Tara Davis-Woodhall who specializes in both long jump and hurdles also earned accolades during her high school years. In 2017, at the CIF California State Meet, she secured three gold medals and continued to set a National high school record in hurdles 100m event. Davis-Woodhall broke a 20-year-old long jump state record. She first attended the University of Georgia before transferring to the University of Texas.
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