Category: #athletes
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Reading Roster: Empowering Youth Coaches through Sport Psychology Insights
“Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches, Developing Champions in Sports and Life,” by Ronald E. Smith and Frank L. Smoll Highly recommended! This is a great read for ANY adult who is involved in the development of an athlete. Smith and Smoll encourage coaches and guardians toward an ideology and practice of “mastery development” over “results…
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Embracing Future-Oriented Thinking for Athletes
Dearest Athlete Illuminated Community, Hope you had a restful and replenishing weekend! We’re kicking off the week with a topic that was NOT part of my upbringing: future-oriented thinking. I’m one of those Gen X latchkey kids who was responsible for getting myself home and fed as a 3rd grader, drinking water out of the…
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Athlete Illuminated: A Community for All
We believe that everyone who carries the “athlete mentality” – that understanding of what it means to push their body and test their mental, emotional, and spiritual limits – is an athlete. The weekend warrior training for their first 5K deserves just as much cheerleading as the Olympian. The person who exercises and stretches every…
The Athlete Psychotherapist 