One is the Loneliest Number

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It was Thursday, October 9, 2003. Old College Practice Field was placed amidst a forest of trees, where the color changing leaves were noted each fall season. Thursday practices were typically light, as we tapered to prepare for our Friday game. At the end of each Thursday session, my coach announced the starting lineup for the next day, and had the remainder of the team set up as the scouting team to simulate anticipated tendencies. My name had been called every single Thursday as a starter for Michigan State University women’s soccer. Before October 9, I had started all 32 games in which I played. However, everyRead More →

Hypothermia in Hot Temps?

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It was an unseasonably sweltering fall day at Michigan State. As I entered the auditorium that housed a room full of college students, I looked around to find a seat. Six hundred students were assigned to this particular biology course for that fall semester of 2003. We were in an overpacked room, sitting elbow to elbow. Students were using their sleeves to wipe the dripping sweat off their foreheads and drinking water like they had been sitting for hours on a scalding beach. Let’s put it this way – it was evident that people were uncomfortably hot, sweaty, and parched. I looked around and noticedRead More →

Break the Stigma: #breakthestigma

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It was a 100 degree August afternoon at Old College Field in East Lansing, MI. We had just completed our second training session of the day. As we typically would after practice, we hung around to decompress, stretch our bodies, and finish socializing. As my teammates and I started heading back to the locker room, I thought I heard my name being called. I looked around. “Konheim,” I heard my coach yell again to get my attention, “Come here for a second.” I sensed something unusual as I approached a small huddle including all three coaches. “We are very concerned about you right now. We don’t know ifRead More →

Heredity

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Born at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan on June 15, 1984 at 9:28am, I increased a family of three to four. Lisa and Joseph Konheim were high school sweethearts, married at 20 years old, had their first child, Ari, at 24, and me, their second, at 26. They had their third and final child, Jeremy, at age 29. Both Lisa and Joseph were born and raised in a suburb of Detroit called Oak Park, Michigan. It was a close knit neighborhood, where the name of your block identified your exact location. At the time, Oak Park was a heavily Jewish populated community, where diversity lackedRead More →

Today I Start My Journey...

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I am beginning my  journey as a blogger today, on April 17, 2015, for many reasons. My goal is to share my life’s experiences through detailed stories that I believe led me to “My Rock Bottom.” There are specific events throughout my childhood that have strongly influenced me and shaped me into the person I have become today. Life has its pressures and stressors that are created through standards and expectations. A person can control these powerful anxieties in many different capacities. I, for one, struggled to manage them healthily, as I always placed extreme pressure on myself, and truly felt my performances were never good enough. Finally, my sophomore year of college, my battle ofRead More →