Loss, trauma, healing: Broncos' Beaudry finds a new path through life.
It had been a long time since he’d used those pills. He’d worked hard to repair his liver and kidneys from his past dalliance, but he felt now like he needed them.
As Beaudry drove, he listened to Eckhart Tolle talk about grief and letting go. Fifteen minutes outside the city, it pierced his soul. He very much misses the people on that bus — his newborn daughter has been named Lilly Brons Beaudry, after the Broncos’ deceased athletic therapist, Dayna Brons — but from deep grief comes introspection.
“A lot of our life patterns are created when we’re young,” he says. “I got addicted to the feeling of raging, or getting really angry, when I was young. When you freak out, your body sends out a bunch of endorphins to calm you down. I remember losing a video game at eight years old, and freaking out, losing my mind, and enjoying it.
He went to coaching clinics and devoured books, reading voraciously, long into the night. He watched videos and absorbed every piece of coaching information he could find. He was suddenly a student, and he wanted to know the game better than anybody else. “The message I got from those talks when I went to school, I view now as kind of backwards,” he says. “You’re always told that if you become an alcoholic or you do drugs, you’ll be living in the gutter, it’s going to be terrible. They only ever talk about all these bad, bad times.
Beaudry is active on Twitter, writing his thoughts and breakthroughs for the world. He had a spiritual side before the crash, he says, but he felt cultural pressure to not be “a weirdo; a hippie.”Beaudry, his sister, and a counsellor started up a group called RiseTogether, designed for sharing and healing. They meet regularly.
After parting ways with the Broncos, Beaudry was hired by the Melville Millionaires. He went to camp, started the season, but had to step away in early October.
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