Headstrong Sports and Performance

🗳️ Do you practice gratitude regularly?

Research shows that athletes who intentionally practice gratitude experience:
🎯 Less burnout,
🎯 More resilience,
🎯 and stronger team connections.

🙏🏼 Gratitude doesn’t mean ignoring the struggle. It means seeing the bigger picture through it! Gratitude turns pressure into purpose.

💭 Try this: After your next game or training session, name/write down 3 things you’re grateful for — not just what went right, but what challenged you!

✝️ “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
— 1 Thessalonians 5:18

🔑 The more you pay attention to the “good”, the more “good” seems to show up 😉

AASP West Regional Conference 2025 day 1! Hosted by cbu_spp (feat. Cohort 7) Such great information and ideas shared on how to best support client/athletes across various domains - with our overall theme this year being ✨Resilience✨
This conference always relights my fire being surrounded by and in conversations with the top in the field - As iron sharpens iron, so too a man sharpens the mind of his friend -Proverbs 27:17 💙⚔️

Early morning supervising duties 👩🏻‍🏫 Did you Train Your Brain today?

National Train your Brain day!! How did you train your brain today?

🗣️Don’t let things you can’t control, control you!

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Another Tuesday, another reminder to

📸 I had the opportunity to speak to high school students aspiring to pursue careers in the medical/health field about Sport Psychology! One technique I went over with them is the power of intentional breathing.

👩🏻‍✈️We are on autopilot a lot of the time these days balancing a million things and never slowing down. Taking our body out of automatic drive and into manual can reset your whole system!

🫁Think about it; our breathing changes when we are influenced by external or internal factors (exercise, nerves, fear, relaxation). why don’t we work that in reverse and use our breath to influence some factors?! 🧐 Our breathing is inextricably linked to our cognitive activity, why don’t we tap in and really pilot our own mind?

🎯Next time you are stressed, why don’t you try out this box breathing technique. Rumor is, Navy SEALs use this technique regularly for relaxation in stressful situations 😉🤫 There’s only 4 steps to this (like the 4 sides of a box… get it.. box breathing😜) Anyway, what you want to do is: Inhale for 4 seconds
Hold (your breath) for 4 seconds
Exhale 4 seconds
Hold 4 second
Repeat a few times - once you get that mind/body connection and slow that breathing you’ll feel the difference! Physically and mentally 🧘🏻‍♀️

Our thoughts can only fall into 1 of 2 categories; love/life 🕊️or fear/negativity 👹
We spend a lot of time in our own heads, let’s make it a nice place to be! What we think, is what we become. This year, let’s focus on training our brains to think life, love, and positivity!

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” -Proverbs 27:17

Are you so rounding yourself with blade sharpeners? Those around you, have the most influence on you (whether you believe that or not). Make sure you’re surrounding yourself with positive, challenging people that are going to encourage your best and support your growth!

👩🏼‍🏫Paying attention to the right things at the right time is critical for high-level performance. In order to train our brains to pay attention to the right things at crucial, competitive moments, we have to practice guiding our attention. Are you aware of what you’re paying attention to? 🤔