Wrestling Beginnings and College Career

• 🤼 Greg Warren shares his early wrestling journey, starting in high school where his father was his coach.
• 🏅 He achieved state champion status twice in high school and later earned an All-American title in his senior year at the University of Missouri.
• 🎓 Warren recounts his brief but impactful time at West Point, including losing a firing pin during an equipment inspection.
• 🤝 He highlights the influence of coaches like Solomon and Nate Carr, noting their unique training methods and the small-world connection with Ryan Sickler.

The Toll of Weight Cutting and Food Issues

• 💧 College wrestling involved extreme weight cutting practices, including using sauna suits and riding bikes in steam-filled rooms.
• ⚠️ This intense dehydration led to an unhealthy relationship with food, characterized by binge eating when bored, sad, or celebrating.
• 🍪 Warren describes specific instances of bingeing, such as adding extra Oreos to Oreo ice cream, and seeking help for these habits.

Navigating OCD and Mental Health

• 🧠 Warren was diagnosed with scrupulosity OCD, a condition involving excessive guilt over actions, real or imagined.
• 💭 He shares examples of childhood guilt, such as believing he broke his brother's truck, and later obsessions about potentially having committed terrible acts.
• 🤝 He discusses his experiences with therapy, including a therapist falling asleep and another eating during a session, before finding a therapist who identified his OCD.
• 💡 Treatment approaches mentioned include exposure therapy, where one confronts the feared outcome, and acknowledging the possibility of having done the feared action.

Family, Loss, and Memory

• 💔 Warren discusses the passing of his mother from ovarian cancer at age 72, detailing her illness and his time spent with her before her death.
• ✍️ He cherishes his mother's legacy as a writer, particularly her humor column, and shares how he keeps her memory alive through social media posts.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 He reflects on his supportive parents, his father's remarriage, and the value of his own stable childhood, contrasting it with friends' more difficult upbringings.
• 🎤 Warren advises his 16-year-old self that nothing is permanent and that there are always more chances, especially in show business.