Podcast

“Besides feed the athlete/feed the monster, are there other ways to reframe and build confidence with that day-to-day overwhelm in month 3 and beyond?” Allison   In season 8 of The Injured Athletes Club podcast, mental skills coach Carrie Jackson answers a question every other week about the mental side of overcoming injuries.  This week,…

“  I woke up in the hospital and told everybody that this isn’t gonna define me. I’m going to be playing lacrosse again. But there was always that what-if in the back of my head; I didn’t really know if it would be possible. Having amputees sit across from me and hearing everything that they’ve been…

“ Just after recovering from being hit by a truck over the summer and breaking a bunch of bones, I got to start running again only to slam my ankle into a table and now I can’t even walk. It’s possibly just a bone bruise but the pain is radiating through my entire leg and I’m…

“  The biggest change that I’ve had to make in myself is, you don’t always have to be progressing. I feel like there’s this huge push to be able to run faster, run farther, lift heavier, just do more all the time. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way to reap all the benefits…

“How can I cope with treadmill anxiety? Coming off of a mild ankle fracture, my first few weeks I was back up to speed. Lately, as soon as I go anywhere over a jog, I feel panicky, like I’m going to fall and have to slow down. I feel relatively sure it is all mental—but…

“Actionable goals build. It’s a mountain—recovery is a mountain. Think about the stops on that mountain that you need to make to get to the top.”   Millie Paladino had a successful, relatively injury-free collegiate career in running at West Virginia University and then Providence College, where she ran distances from 800 meters to 3,000…

“ I tore my ACL last April; it’s been very challenging. Do you have any ideas on how to make the recovery process fun? Also, why do I feel so lost and confused without my sport—what should I do with this feeling? —Ava In season 8 of The Injured Athletes Club podcast, mental skills coach Carrie…

“ I don’t really want to be who I was before I was injured. In a lot of ways, I’m thankful to a place that just completely broke me, just brought me to some really low points. That’s when I was able to grasp my faith or what it was, which is my personal worth. It…

“ I have had the worst luck in the last two years. I had a knee replacement in April 2022 for a left knee that had at least 6 scopes over a 10-year + period and it was finally ready to be redone. At last, I would be pain-free. I worked extremely hard to rehab so…

“ Anybody I’ve met since I got hurt, I feel like they don’t know me and that they can’t know me. For people that I’ve become really close to since I got hurt—it almost hurts me to know that this person won’t actually ever know who I am or who I was. They’re meeting an entirely…