As Wellness Month comes to a close, we had the chance to catch up with Jasmine Blocker, a former professional athlete who excelled as a world championship sprinter. She creates content in the athletic-fitness, lifestyle, and health-wellness spaces and is also a strong mental health advocate. As we’ve shared, wellness is all about creating spaces and places for you to feel your feelings, open your heart and lead with compassion wherever your path leads. Jasmine is all about making wellness less intimidationg and more stylish, and we’re so here for that.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m Jasmine Blocker, world champion track athlete turned wellness advocate, mental health storyteller, and culture enthusiast. My career started on the track, where I learned discipline, grit, and how to push through discomfort, but it’s what happened after competing that really shaped me. Transitioning out of athletics forced me to rethink performance: not just physical, but emotional, mental, and even aesthetic. Now, I use my platform to explore where high performance meets real life, because self-care isn’t a luxury, it is a survival strategy. I talk about everything from fitness and beauty rituals to managing anxiety and embracing joy, always with a dose of honesty and a wink of wit. My goal? To make wellness less intimidating and more stylish.
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Share a moment when you realized wellness needed to become a priority in your life – and how that shifted your routine?
For me, it was the realization that I couldn’t “out-train” stress or burnout. When I moved to LA in 2018, I hit a wall. I had to confront the fact that no amount of training or external achievement could cancel out what was happening internally. I was exhausted, anxious, burning out in silence, and no medal or PR was going to fix it. That moment forced me to redefine what performance meant, because performance isn’t just how fast you can run—it is how well you can recover, connect, and sustain yourself. My routine shifted from being all grind to being more holistic. Now, therapy, movement, rest, and even simple joys like skincare or getting dressed with intention are all part of my wellness practice. The biggest difference? I stopped treating my body like a machine and started treating it like a home. That shift forced me to see recovery, therapy, and intentional rest as part of my winning strategy, not an afterthought.
How do you define wellness?
For me, wellness is alignment. It’s when your body, mind, and lifestyle stop working against each other and start working together. It’s not about chasing perfection. Wellness is about listening to yourself, being honest about your needs, and creating practices that actually support you. So expand your support system rather than restrict it— expand your capacity for joy, for energy, for peace.
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What’s a wellness practice you once overlooked but now see as essential to your performance and happiness?
Sleep. Full stop. Now I see sleep as the ultimate reset button. It’s when the body repairs, the brain processes, and the nervous system regulates. It’s also the cheapest, most natural beauty treatment out there. Once I started investing into a higher quality of my sleep, my energy, mood, and even my workouts completely transformed. I’ve stopped wearing fatigue like a badge of honor—and that’s been freeing.
If you could go back and give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be and why?
I’d tell her: Don’t confuse exhaustion with achievement. You don’t need to break yourself down to prove your worth. Hustle can build resilience, but so can boundaries, joy, and play. And you don’t need to earn these things, you deserve them by default. I wish I had learned earlier that peace and confidence are not opposites of ambition—they’re what sustain it. My younger self thought slowing down meant falling behind. Now I know: slowing down is sometimes the exact move that gets you where you’re meant to go, stronger.
