Author: The Injured Athletes Club

“How do I keep trying in the face of chronic health issues? Sometimes giving up feels like the more sensible choice.” —Sarah   “That’s my question too. How do I accept that structural issues are real and we need to accept and move on? There’s a lot of discussion here about ‘going back to’ what…

“At this point, it’s knowing the warning signs and when you can keep pressing on the gas and when you’re kind of like, ah, I gotta, I gotta step on the brakes a little bit … If you’ve been unlucky and had an injury, you kind of know what it felt, what it feels like,…

“I just turned 56 years old and have been making great strides in the mental side of my tennis game and competing. However, last May in a doubles match, I tore a piece of articular cartilage in my left knee. As my orthopedic surgeon has explained to me, that cartilage will never grow back as…

“It’s really accepting the emotion and coming into the present moment—not time-traveling and wishing things were like they were in the past or time-traveling and wanting this to be over already and thinking about the future. Instead, it’s bringing yourself into the present moment of like, okay, I would prefer to not be feeling this…

“A question I think a lot of us have is, when do you let go? That is, when do you realistically decide that the energy, physical, mental and emotional is not going to be rewarded and a change in goals—whether that’s physical goals or life goals—is an order? In short, when do you stop beating…

“My previous perspective, or the way that I have always thought about my body, is that it’s injury-prone. That’s the narrative I had adopted and often just think of myself and my body in sports, or in doing any sort of physical activity, that it’s not quite suited to or made for this type of…

“Will I ever be the athlete I was before all of this? My fear isn’t around re-injuring the same part, my fear is, what body part might go wrong next? Is this my body’s way of telling me that my age is finally catching up with me?”   —Louise   This week, co-host and mental…

“You can’t fight for everything in life. But we all have a few things in our lives that are core to who we are, and that pull on us every single day. As much as you can endure, endure, because it’s always worth it and it’s bigger than you.”   Running back Tim Hightower had…

“One of the catalysts for us starting the Injured Athletes Club support group and then also doing the podcast is so that you don’t feel like you’re alone … when you lose your sport, there’s sometimes so many little mini-losses that come with that. So to be able to come to the Injured Athletes Club…

“My parents are dancers, so I literally grew up in the studio. Ballet kind of goes hand in hand with my identity—I have always been Chyrstyn the ballet dancer. I didn’t realize that until I had it taken away from me and I had to sit down and identify other things that I was interested…