Member Spotlight: Kristin Hedges
“Being angry is part of it, but you can’t stay there.” Kristin sometimes tells her students “Frustration, all of those other feelings aren’t bad… but you can’t live there.” I have seen people train at Title Boxing Club for a lot of reasons, often as a way to relieve stress or as an act of self-love, as an outlet, or an escape. Sometimes it’s for the outward stuff too--bikini pics and bragging rights, medals, weight lifted, or inches lost. And while none of those are bad, by far the greatest accomplishment I have seen here was by a person who would never even boast about it at all. “In my mind I come in here and do what everybody else does. Everyone works hard,” she shrugged. “Except that I started at such a terrible place so I’m going to have some progress --I don’t know how to explain how I’ve been successful at this.” Since I first started at Title I’ve been wanting to tell Kristin Hedge’s story. Each time I asked, she just smiled or gave me a hug and nodded, “Som
