Mental toughness is a requirement for any successful athlete. The ability to overcome challenges and setbacks is what sets the great ones apart from the rest. In this blog, you will find educational tips and resources to help coaches, athletes, parents, professionals, and all of you who are required to perform in any capacity.
An Interview on Mental Performance with D1 College Baseball Standout- Derek Bender A great part of mental performance work is the ability to create and maintain deep connections with high performing people. Derek Bender, now a Sophomore at Coastal Carolina University, is certainly a high performing athlete, and one that I have developed a great […]
The Impact of Personality on Athletic Performance The longer I’m in the business of mental performance and counseling, the more I see how much our personality impacts performance, both positively and negatively. The most widely accepted theory of personality among psychologists is called the Big 5. The big 5 model can be very useful […]
Have you ever suffered an injury that took you away from your sport for a period of time? Or as a coach or parent, had an athlete that had to be away from their sport due to injury? This is all too relative of a topic for me right now as 6 weeks ago […]
The Single MOST IMPORTANT Skill Parents of Athletes Need to Know and Practice After seeing hundreds of teenage clients as a therapist and mental performance coach, there is one question I get asked more often than any other by parents… “What can I do to help my child when they are struggling mentally or […]
Life can be bizarre sometimes. The older you get, the more you look for and see these surreal moments around you. I experienced one of those intense moments recently. A week ago I drove from New York to Maryland to work with UMBC Men’s Soccer. It’s fitting that the first program and coaches I get […]
Coaches Q & A: What Does a Mental Performance Program Look Like for Your Team I’m sure by now you have realized that your athletes don’t always perform at their peak potential. You put in all of the hours working on fitness, technique, and tactics; but then, on match day, their focus, confidence, or […]
If you are looking for a sport psychologist or a mental performance coach, we can assume that you are likely an athlete or the parent/coach of athletes. We can also assume that you are interested in one or both of the following: 1- Getting over a mental block 2- Improving the mental game to reach […]
7 Simple Strategies To Staying Disciplined “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” Jim Rohn Last year I was on a snowboarding trip with two of my best friends. I was telling them […]
The Final: 3 Top Things We Can Do For Our Mental Health Closing out mental health month, this final blog in the series will capture the third, and most important thing we can do to improve our mental and emotional health. So far we have discussed the value of kindness and the skill of mindfulness […]
Part 3 of this blog series on mental health starts with a personal short story going back to July 26, 2005… I was just 20 years old headed into my senior year of college. On that summer day, the most devastating and shocking news I could have heard came through a timid phone call. My […]
