"Who won gold, who won silver, and who won bronze is the last thing that interests divine humility."

Brigita Langerholz In the book, she spoke about the moments when she decided she was healthy, most notably after her exceptional fourth place at the Sydney Olympics, and about the truly wild processes that followed... And about her studies and numerous medals at that time that we don't even know about, about her Indian marriage, four children, and about the therapies that lifted her the most, and about her four close encounters with ayahuasca, about respected mentors and solidarity among colleagues, but also very clearly about the logs that fell on the tracks of top-level sport.

In short - everything and much more about how this fiery creature, mother of three girls, made the leap from a sickly little girl to a top athlete and now a coach with valuable new skills.

EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
From Sydney with gratitude
"I met the Olympic qualifying mark with extreme difficulty. I had just missed it, so I was completely relaxed when I arrived in Sydney. It was as if I had burned off all the stress I had accumulated over the previous three months while frantically chasing the mark!"
When I first stepped into the Olympic Village, I felt like Alice in Wonderland. The village was so beautiful! Before I saw it all with my own eyes, I had no idea such wonders were possible. The Australians have truly outdone themselves. In the middle of nowhere, they built a settlement overnight for tens of thousands of people from all over the world.
The village was built of one-story houses, the uniformity of which only added to the magic of the landscape. Even more magical were the grandiose state-of-the-art competition facilities. I had never seen anything like them in Europe or America. Everything was shiny new, and on top of that, Australians were one of the most welcoming nations on the planet. And even back then, in 2000, they were separating waste, which seemed to us in the Slovenian expedition to be the height of exoticism.
In all that spectacular hustle and bustle, I felt a little lost at first, but in a good way. There was a buzz all around me. Suddenly I was thrown into a kind of multicultural cauldron, amplified to the extreme. For the social part of me, the Olympic Village was nothing short of paradise.
How excited I was to see that you had menus from every continent available in the dining room! I was even more amazed by all the first-class sports equipment that competitors from other countries were wearing, even for a short trip to the store.
It's not that I've ever been a 'brand girl' in my life. But I was someone who had to spend the entire holiday sorting boards at a local toothpick maker for my first Reeboks. Before that, I trained in regular leather shoes because they were much more durable than my parents' affordable Jass. The old Yugoslavian sneakers fell apart after three months of hard training, and the shoes somehow got worn out throughout the year.”

ABOUT BRIGITA LANGERHOLC
Brigita Langerholc is a mentor of mental and breathing techniques, an instructor of the Jose Silva UltraMind ESP method and a Sophia Leadership coach. She advocates for human empowerment, opening her heart and consequently the hearts of all people. Due to the many trials she experienced as a child, she now feels herself and consequently others more easily. She warns against unethical practices in sports and elsewhere, and draws her strength from her connection with nature.
Brigita is the mother of three mischievous girls who all love horses and nature. A passionate researcher of dolphins, whales, nature, and the limits of what is possible in our consciousness and in connection with all living beings. She is a Bloudek award winner and multiple participant in world and European championships, multiple record holder and world champion in the 800 meters as a student. With 4th place at the Sydney Olympics, she experienced a transformation and concluded that, contrary to long-standing diagnoses, she is healthy and capable of anything.

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