Hearing from my coach made such a difference in me getting help. He saw the whole me, not just the athlete. In the past, I have had to grapple with seeing myself as more than just a volleyball player. After I tore my ACLs, I tried doing box jumps again, but I had a panic attac...
“I’m the star athlete, my face is everywhere, people are going to judge me,” Holdsclaw said. “The stigma is real.” This agreement worked great for her, she said, until her family was mentioned again. When her father’s diagnoses surfaced, this made Holdsclaw less willing to discus...
” said Kehoe, cofounder and education program director forMorgan’s Message, an advocacy group that promotes mental health in student athletics. “She didn't feel comfortable that she could be honest with the people around her about the depths of her pain.”...
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Take Rebecca, a student I worked with who was an athlete in school but always wanted to be on stage. “Because I played sports in high school, I could never make time for the school theater productions. In college, I decided to join an amateur drama group and have loved it so much....
Concerns About Athlete Mental Health In Sports Helping athletes with poor mental health is a subject of study that has gained plenty of popularity over the years. Driven in part by the raising of awareness of elite athletes who have suffered and or continue to suffer with mental health,...
Dani Alves, Former Football Legend, Convicted of Sexual Assault: The Man Is Not The Athlete. Mar 4, 2024 Agathe Vanmassenhove Photo courtesy of Hector Vivas via Getty Images, 2022 Can we differentiate the man from the artist? This commonly asked question when it comes to visual arts also...
Ben has been a committed athlete, competing on Lakefield’s race teams for both Nordic skiing and cross-country running. Over three seasons of Nordic skiing, he qualified for OFSAA each year and completed three seasons of cross-country running, balancing his athletic commitments with his entreprene...
I’m convinced that every female athlete has, at one point in her life, been told “you play/run/throw like a girl,” with the implication that doing so is wrong or inferior. Similarly, the feminizing of coaches like Dabo Swinney, Jim Harbaugh, and others was also very prevalent as ...
I no longer see myself as an athlete and a poet independently, but rather I see these two aspects forming a single inseparable identity – me. Despite their apparent differences, these two disciplines are quite similar, as each requires creativity and devotion. I am still a poet when I am...