Redefining what “work” means in mental health can have a significant meaning for athletes. That’s because work and emotions have a heated history in the competitive space. After all, athletes…
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Setting Personal Boundaries in Athlete Mental Health
Athletes are used to boundaries. After all, most every court, field, track, etc. has lines drawn on it that indicate when your inbound or out of bound. Even as a…
Using Affirmations for Athlete Mental Health
Affirmations for athlete mental health are actually extremely useful in reprogramming the negative thought habits that plague many players. Whether in their sport or elsewhere, an athlete’s mental health can…
Athlete Mental Health When Your Season is in Question
When you’re an athlete, one of the biggest contributing factors to your mental health is your sport, and your ability to compete. For some athletes, the physical outlet of training,…
What are the physical consequences of long term stress?
The physical consequences of long term stress are something most people know about or have at least heard about in one capacity or another. However, when you’re someone who prides…
How to Handle Anxiety and Stress Due to Expectations
Anxiety or stress due to expectations is extremely common. Expectations are ideas of what we believe will happen but yet are still unproven. Sometimes our expectations are conscious and sometimes…
Transforming Athlete Stress by Pausing to Breathe
Breathing is something that we do all day every day without really thinking about it. If you’re an athlete, you might become aware of your breath if you’re pushing so…
Our student-athlete suicide crisis
I was recently deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a young high school football player in Florida who was set to enroll at Georgia Tech on a football…
How Desires and Fears Affect Athlete Mental Wellness
Athlete mental health and wellness improves when we begin to understand the person as an individual. Our mindsets are programmed with subconscious beliefs, but also conscious thought habits. One way…
Why mental illness isn’t as simple as a choice
Act right. Get over it. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Toughen up. Everyone has problems so deal with it. These are just some of the phrases I’ve heard over the…