169: Your Hero is Actually in the Mirror Kyree Oliver

Published: Oct. 23, 2016, 10 p.m.

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Have you ever felt like life just happened to you without your consent? Kyree Oliver found himself thinking this exact thought about two years ago. He was in his dorm room at\\xa0college, thinking about the physical, mental, and emotional abuse he underwent in the previous five months of his life. He felt as though he had lost all control over his life and that he was simply life\\u2019s punching bag.

Kyree needed a hero to save him but the people closest to him at the time, his teammates,\\xa0were the people putting him through the abuse. He realized that if anybody was going to save him it HAD to be himself. He realized that he needed to build himself up so that one day he could look in the mirror and honestly say, \\u201cI did it\\u2026 I pulled it together and saved myself\\u201d he let life happen to him up to that point, but from then on he became the author of his own life\\u2019s story. He became the Hero in the Mirror.

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