Tennis star Naomi Osaka’s recent statements about her mental health struggles has the sports world buzzing about “normalizing” depression. Osaka revealed that she has faced “long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018”. Osaka also mentions that she has “had a really hard time coping”. In addition, Osaka is receiving nearly universal support […]
Growing up as an athlete I was socialized to believe that being humble is a preferred virtue. For the vast majority of my life, I viewed being humble as a character trait that all great athletes must have. But now that I am a mental skills coach, I now know that being humble is not […]
One of the big reasons I never reached the best version of myself as a college athlete was focus. It’s not that I didn’t have focus, it’s that I was focusing on the wrong things. My big mistake was that my focus was always on outcomes. Things such as where I was on the depth […]