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Introducing an unlikely contender

posted by Binnie Klein, a Women Talk Sports blogger
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 12:27pm EST

About Binnie Klein:

I'm an unlikely contender. In my mid-fifties, I took up boxing. The result? I wrote a book, "Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind" just out from Suny Press! I'm also a psychotherapist and...more

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Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind (Suny Press, January 2010) is the provocative story of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing -- me!

I'm a psychotherapist in private practice in New Haven, CT.  I'm a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, where I supervise mental health trainees.  I also host a popular music and interview show at WPKN-FM.

Never athletic as a child (I barely broke a sweat growing up in Newark in the 1950s), my "day job" has been quite sedentary.  In my mid-fifties I took up boxing and fell in love.  Boxing, sparring, attending fights, writing articles about fights, and ultimately my memoir, have been transformational events that I never could have imagined.  The boxing community has been warm and welcoming.  I created a new feature on my WPKN show, "In Your Corner."  Along with my co-host and coach John Spehar of Fighting Fitness in Orange, CT, we interview authors and athletes. 

I hope to keep you posted here on the journey of an new author, and someone who has finally realized what sports have to offer!  It's never too late.

Published by Suny Press

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