Clinical Mental Health and Mental Performance Counselor| M.Ed. Counselor Education |M.S. Sport and Exercise Psychology š“ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó “ó æ/šŗšø
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š§š§š§ but I thought fear and anxiety is bad and the recipe to success is all about remaining confident and positiveā¦..š š¤„
āI kept telling myself I could lose.ā
@Padraig_H on how the fear of losing helped him win his first major at Carnoustie in 2007.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May
#commitment #doubt
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Long vacations rarely cure burnout. They usually bring temporary relief.
The frequency of time off from work matters more than the duration. 2 separate week-long vacations are more restorative than a 2-week trip.
Regular breaks are vital to well-being.
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"Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say." #CarlJung
I only wonder how individuals physical and mental health would improve if this concept was not a privilege in todays societyā¦.
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Psychological principle: There is no perfect anything-- perfect mental health, perfect economic situation, perfect secure attachment, perfect life, perfect happiness, etc. To be human is to struggle and everything has trade-offs. You may think others have it better than you, but they are just living a different life with a different set of trade-offs.
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I see a lot written about "attachment styles" but so much of it is wrong! Some recent findings in the psychological literature that may surprise you:
1. There is no such thing as a secure attachment style!
When we study adults we find it much more informative to talk about continuums we are all on, not "types" or "styles". Researchers have found that we all exist somewhere on either the avoidance dimension (not type) or the anxious dimension (not type). Our level of secure attachment is simply our placement on these two dimensions. MAJOR IMPLICATION: There is no such thing as a perfectly securely attached person! I mean, have you ever met one?! A person has a higher "level" of secure attachment if they score lower on both the anxious and avoidant dimensions of attachment. Also, any individual can score high on both avoidance and anxious, low on both, mid on both, high on one, low on the other, etc. They are correlated but separate dimensions!
2. Childhood attachment patterns are overrated and we make too much of it! The actual correlation between early childhood attachment patterns and our adult attachment placement on the avoidance and anxious continuums is SURPRISINGLY LOW!! Much more predictive of our adulthood attachment patterns is *our entire history of adult relationships*, NOT our childhood relationships!! Highly sensitive and caring partners in adulthood ABSOLUTELY CAN OVERRIDE our childhood patterns (within the normal range of most humans; extreme abuse in childhood makes things far more complex in adulthood).
I see a lot of other misinformation about attachment theory but I think that's enough for now! Hope you found this informative! I can add links to papers and references if you want but didn't want to overwhelm everyone with stats and graphs. š
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How about we normalize earning enough to make a sustainable income without killing yourself working 100 hours a week.
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A big misconception is that you need to be motivated to get rolling.
You don't.
Research: Motivation often FOLLOWS action, not the other way around.
In Practice: You don't need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.
Itās almost expected in sport that your job is your life. When in fact work is just one of many aspect of a individualās life. Structural changes needed to change the work culture in sport. More balance, better well-being, less burnout, better chance of optimal performance.
Data is from 6,000 NCAA coaches. These numbers are concerning. What or how are collegiate institutions supporting coaches with their mental health? We teach a class designed to help coaches support their athletes' mental well-being. @DrBuning, maybe we need one for coaches too!
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āBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.ā - Viktor Frankl
Great list to refer to. There is no magic formula so check in if certain rules,structures, frameworks are still helping and not hurting.
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Thereās no actual template for how life is supposed to look or go. There is no timeline. Itās easy to get caught up in comparing ourselves to others and what society expects, but this ānormā doesnāt actually exist. It is socially constructed. Our lives can look however we want.
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Learning how to feel our emotions fully, without surrendering our actions to them wholesale, is a life's work in and of itself. Mastering the art of thinking is great, but mastering the art of feeling is spun gold.
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If I had to feel motivated to start a workout I would have done 23 workouts last year, not 230.
If I had to feel inspired to start writing thereād be hardly any writing.
Want to stop 20 minutes in, fine. But give yourself a chance.
On languishing, exhaustion, and showing up:
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Fighting for something bigger than himself ā¤ļø #UFCLondon
Was my pleasure and just the first of many collaborations.
Big thanks to @scottmalcolm95 for taking the time to talk to the team about mental health/performance and how they go hand in hand! Took some great nuggets away understanding athletes when it comes to āmotivationā and the process of challenging them! #stretchandsupport
