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There are days when I feel utterly hopeless and cry a lot. How do I keep it together? My doctor prescribed therapy and counseling, but there are no available spaces in my area. Besides yoga and meditation, what can I do to stay or return to positive?    This week, co-host and mental skills coach…

“Every day doesn’t have to be perfect. But you still have to put in the work, and you still need to show up, and you still need to put that brick in. Because in my little brick house in Fort Collins, which I grew up in, all the bricks were there, even if they were…

How can I handle the pressure of not being able to train with the fear of losing fitness as a competitive athlete?    This week, co-host and mental skills coach Carrie Jackson answers a question from listener Carla F. She suggests Carla reset her goals and remember that her fitness will come back in time,…

“All right, there are two options: You can get going and see what you can do with this life, or you can give up. And I said, option one’s too easy, I don’t like taking the easy road out. I’m going to see what I can do. I’m going to see the capabilities I have…

What I am struggling with the most right now is the paralyzing fear of re-injury. What else can you suggest for the person who has a debilitating fear of re-injury who has tried everything in Rebound and tends to outsmart themselves by overthinking everything?    This week, co-host and mental skills coach Carrie Jackson answers…

“I just wish I could go back and tell myself a year ago how great I’m feeling a year later … to have that kind of foresight that it’s going to get a lot better. I’m going to look back on this one day and think, wow, I won’t even be able to believe that…

I’m struggling with which doctors to trust and how to get second opinions. I’ve seen at least six for the issue I am currently experiencing, which turned out to be a lot more complex than I imagined. So my question is, how much do you tell a new doctor about what previous doctors think? And…

“So many of us seek out this idea that we want to feel confident all the time in whatever it is that we’re doing—that if we feel confident, that means that we’re never going to feel doubt. And that is just not true. That’s why I like to talk about confidence as not something that…

I have a high pain threshold. I’ve run through stress fractures and I’m currently rehabbing another one. How can I or should I learn better to be aware of pain in order to prevent injury?    This week, co-host and mental skills coach Carrie Jackson answers a question from listener Jennifer H. The answer, Carrie…

“My visualization was imagining myself and my horse in a protective white light, and that we were protected over the jumps, the whole course. The next competition, I remember thinking, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work, but we’ll give it a try.’ We went in and that fear started to come up,…