Review: The Price She Pays offers solutions to mental health crisis in womens sports [Video]

When Katie Steele and Tiffany Brown began conducting interviews for their book, “The Price She Pays,” they expected to hear stories of athletes facing internal struggles, external pressures, mistreatment and abuse.

As licensed therapists with longstanding and direct connections to the world of sports, it was no secret to either of them that the journey for women in sports can be rife with trauma.

What Steele and Brown did not expect was the sheer volume of shared experiences, and the clarity of solutions they could offer in the book, which examines what the authors describe as a mental health “crisis” in women’s sports from the youth level up to the pros. “The Price She Pays” releases next Tuesday, with a book signing event set for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at Powell’s Books in Beaverton.

The Oregonian/OregonLive received an advance copy for review.

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