A Urgent Message to Coaches and Parents Dear Coaches and Parents,Your athletes, your children are hurting.Let’s start doing something about it now instead of waiting for the next headline of an athlete taking their life, and hoping it won’t be one of yours.Athletes are told over and over that they have to be mentally tough.To […]
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Take Time To Pause I used to struggle to pause.To temper the energizer bunny level drive.Today was the first really hot day of the year. Close to 90 degrees and sunny.I had been working on the new stone path leading up to the goat playground, grateful for my pick axe, mallet and shovel, pounding in
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On Pride Don’t let your pride keep you from doing what will make you proud. I posted asking for help today in my Facebook group for camp parents, leaning into vulnerability. I happened to look at my summer camp enrollment for the first time in months and was shocked by how many camps I still
Action is Required The absence of punishment is not enough. I find myself repeating the same sentence a lot recently in response to a story I continue to hear. I heard it from a school administrator and coaches this last week and from the department head of a hospital on the west coast, an HR
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Practicing Stoicism I listened to the doctor explain what seemed like an endless list of diseases she wanted to test for. I knew the names of some but others fell into the list of “will never be able to spell that correctly enough to google.” But I knew the names of some and my stomach
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On Kindness “Go F*^king kill yourself”I quickly scanned the rest of the text before reading the hate filled sentences out loud.I handed the phone back to teen and listened as she shared her story during another one of my free mental health and leadership workshops for teens.Her story was followed by others.I spent some time