What if I told you that self-care is a myth? That the way we think about it is all wrong. What if I told you that you do not need more self-care in your life? That the problem is deeper than that. That self-care is being used as a scapegoat. What if I told you […]
If you are an anxiously attached dater, then you may have heard comments like “you come on too strong,” or that “you are too much too soon” when it comes to dating, and you have likely had people simply stop responding to you via text (maybe it’s happened many times), or ghost you after a […]
Planning For Success: Helping Student Athletes Transition to College Entering college is an exciting time in a student’s life. It is an opportunity to strengthen independence, develop new friendships, and build skills and knowledge. College often invites a great deal of change, which can be both appealing and nerve-wracking to many students. Starting something unfamiliar […]
If you’re Gen X, you learned to fix your own bike, microwave your own dinner, and read the room fast. You grew up with latchkeys, loud news, and parents who equated love with providing. Now those same parents are aging… and old family dynamics can snap back like a rubber band. This isn’t about fixing […]
There’s this moment many parents of athletes know too well: your kid is doing all the right things. They’re going to practice. They’re watching film. They’re trying hard. But something’s… off. They’re snapping more easily. Their motivation has tanked. They come home from training mentally fried and emotionally flat. They’re still performing – but just […]
We cheer when they win. We clap when they hustle. We tell them how proud we are when they push through and give it everything they’ve got. But behind all that effort – behind the goals, the times, the stats, the highlight clips – is a whole person. And sometimes that person is struggling. It’s […]
What We Don’t Talk About in College Athletics We spend years building toward the dream. The youth leagues, the weekend tournaments, the early morning practices, the sacrifices, the investment, the hours spent driving across the state and back again. We watch them grow into their talent, learn to push themselves, develop discipline and drive and […]
We praise the athlete who’s mentally tough. Who locks in and delivers under pressure. Who rebounds from failure and keeps chasing the win. And yes-mental performance coaching can help with that. Visualization, focus, goal setting, learning how to stay composed in high-stakes moments. It’s powerful. But it’s not everything. There’s another kind of struggle many […]
There’s a silence that follows an injury. Sometimes it’s immediate – shock in the moment, a gasp from the sidelines, a coach crouching next to you while the trainer rushes over. Other times it creeps in slowly. A nagging pain that turns into something more. A scan. A second opinion. And then the words: “You’re […]
I recently read an article that made me feel very seen – in a slightly uncomfortable, “okay, wow, calm down” kind of way. It was about how stress hijacks our ability to be productive. And while it was aimed at professionals in general, I couldn’t stop thinking about how closely it mirrors what I see […]
