Author: Trail Blazer Therapy
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Black and White Thinking: The Ladder
“My goal is to make it to the pros” “The goal is to go Division 1 in college” These are some general answers from athletes when I ask what their goal is, or how they will know they are succeeding in the athlete life. “It means I have failed” “I wasnt good enough” These are…
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Super Bowl Sunday!!!!
For those of you who have tagged along so far, I have somethign fun for you to watch during Sunday’s Super Bowl Game. Lets pay attention to body language of the players and how it changes or effects their game play: Look for all this and more. How does it make the athletes perform any…
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Pessimism Vs. Optimism
This is a sub section of Fixed versus Growth Mindset: Fixed – Pessimistic Growth – Optimistic When talking to athletes, there are key words that should be listened to and those are: By simply having a conversation with an athlete, these among other phrases expose the athlete as being pessimistic or optimistic. This is important……
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Growth Vs. Fixed Mindset
Let’s get to the basics… I mentally walked through all of my conversations at the end of the week and realized a theme of processing style was underlying a lot of them. Furthermore, I stated to pull apart what was beneficial to these people and what was not beneficial in terms of progress and development.…
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The Alter Ego: Thanks to Todd Herman
Got time to read and want to pull a piece of yourself into higher performance and processing standard? I always recommend the Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman. I used the Alter Ego I developed from the book to become a better Jiu Jitsu practitioner, and also to overcome obstacles mentally and physically. There is…
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What is the point of breathing?
Weird title right? But, any athlete, any person who has been told to take a deep breath has probably asked themselves this question. We typically hear, “breathe in your nose and out of your mouth” which is very much correct but the proper way to do so, and why, helps make the technique more effective.…
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Meaning of An Athlete
“What does that mean to you?” Is usually where I get blank or confused looks from athletes talking about experiences and thoughts. The meaning we attach to experiences, shape our automatic thoughts. Our automatic thoughts, form our athlete self reaction and processing of competition and adversity. We need our automatic thoughts to align with our…
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Simple Tricks to Instill Confidence
This is something that I learned while in grad school to become a therapist. We learn tid bits of information along the way that, in the moment don’t seem too big of a deal but as you begin to work with others, it suddenly becomes a growing problem in one’s mindset and inability to face…
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9 Attributes of an Elite Athlete
One of the chapters in my recently finished book (still working on publishing) outlines in detail, nine attributes of elite athletes that summarizes what I have experienced in others that I have played with, worked with and done research on. These nine attributes are things that I eventually help my clients to understand and implement…
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Athlete mindset book?
Yes, I just recently finished a book aiming to help athletes begin the journey of having their mindset and internal athlete help their physical performance. In therapy, the goal is to get the internal athlete to match the needs of the physical athlete. This prevents silly mistakes, emotional blowouts and becoming an athlete that is…
