Rolli Cannoli, Author at WFTDA Insurance

Keeping Our Community and Sport Safe

Rolli Cannoli — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:34:33 +0000

As roller derby returns to high level, competitive tournaments this year, WFTDI wanted to share a friendly reminder that it’s on all of us to keep our community and our sport safe. When purchasing WFTDI insurance, each policyholder signs an agreement to the terms of use. The following behavior is a direct violation of these … Continued

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Self-Love

Rolli Cannoli — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:39:18 +0000

February is the month where we tend to give up on our ‘New Year” intentions/goals/resolutions. It is also the month Valentine’s Day is celebrated. This is not a blog about this holiday but instead a blog to honor Self-Love. Self-Love is caring about yourself. It is not a selfish act, it is appreciating and respecting … Continued

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GRIEF

Rolli Cannoli — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:01:45 +0000

I’ve been thinking about what topic to write about for a week now. I decided to write about grief. I’ve been dealing with my own and have been seeing so many lives lost in our derby community lately that I figured it’s an appropriate time. This morning I finally had some time to write down … Continued

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My league has started back, now what?

Rolli Cannoli — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:45:09 +0000

2022 has not started the way many of us anticipated. The surge of the highly contagious variant Omicron has thrown a wrench in many plans. It has rekindled many of the feelings of 2020 and parts of 2021. In late spring and early summer of 2021 we felt hopeful, we saw the possibility of an … Continued

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Overwhelmed

Rolli Cannoli — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:39:30 +0000

Have you ever stretched cheese or pizza dough or taffy so thin that it breaks? This is how I feel when I’m overwhelmed. Of course, there’s good overwhelming feelings: those of joy, excitement, and happiness. However, those stressful situations where you just have too much on your plate are never good. If you know me, … Continued

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Coping with the Pandemic and the Self-Isolation It Has Caused

Rolli Cannoli — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:25:47 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to have a Zoom call with Dr. Jacob Cooper, the sports psychologist for Appalachian State University Athletics. The WFTDI felt we should address the topic of isolation, what it has done to our psyche, and as we slowly return to socialization, what that looks like. The first thing … Continued

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Should Have Been a Doctor

Rolli Cannoli — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:59:05 +0000

The title of this blog is something I hear a lot from other people and myself. I’m 44 and still paying student loans from the 90s, so when I hear people say, “Oh, it’s not too late to pursue another career, blah blah blah,” I know that is not how I want to … Continued

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