Embrace the Hit: How this skeleton athlete let this advice guide her through motherhood

SALT LAKE CITY — Imagine flying down a narrow track of ice face down in a sled with no ability to brake or steer and hearing this advice: embrace the hit.

That is what Courtney Spencer's coach told her as a 26-year-old athlete taking on the skeleton for the first time. She wrote about how that advice has carried her well beyond the track in her new memoir: "Embrace the Hit." Spencer shared what that technique means in skeleton and how the same advice has guided her through motherhood.

Get the book at embracethehit.com.