Former tennis player Jelena Dokic shares her journey of finding peace and acceptance in the face of both triumphs and challenges. Her recent social media post highlighted her commitment to self-care and the importance of embracing limitations.
Exactly three months ago, during a morning walk along Melbourne’s Yarra River, Jelena Dokic stopped on a bend and snapped a smiling selfie, which she then shared on social media. The former tennis player was busy at the time – frantic, really – in the lead-up to the release of her documentary, (which later sold out in select screenings around the country, and airs again on Channel Nine after the Australian Open).
, but her online message wasn’t alluding to the familiar-yet-fraught retelling of the domestic violence she faced as a child, nor the upcoming exhaustion of red-carpet premieres and Q&As. She wasn’t posting about the recent grim reality of her life. Beaming – in a white windbreaker with pink hood, and with Melbourne Park as a backdrop to her glowing cherubic face – Dokic just wanted to take a minute to admit that she wouldn’t get her intended exercise done that day, on the treadmill or the track. The workout would have to wait. Some days, she added, you can’t move mountains. Some days you can only move from the bed to the couch. And maybe out the door for a stroll. “And you know what?” she wrote. “That’s OK. Today I didn’t feel guilty about that, and I embraced it, and just did my walk, and that’s it. Who knows when I will feel like training again, and that’s OK.” The post was a portrait of defiant contentedness, which is precisely how she seems to me right now. It’s midday, midweek, near the end of the year, and Dokic is wearing that same white and hot pink outfit, with bright orange kicks, and we’re walking along that same stretch of Melbourne, on the crushed cream rock of the Tan Track around the Royal Botanic Gardens, and her smile says it all.She’d love to be running today but she’s having a few niggling Achilles and plantar fascia issues, and a breathy, swift stride up the Anderson Street hill will more than suffice. She’s grateful for that. Grateful for so many things. “Look aroun
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