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…
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47 | Carrie and Cindy Rebuild Your Confidence
“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…
46 | Carrie Answers a Question: Jennifer’s Jam
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…
45 | Equestrian Hannah Selleck: A New View on Training
“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,…
44 | Carrie Answers a Question: Penny’s PT Problem
My question is about how to create habits to get the daily prehab/rehab exercises done. This is always my struggle – I never manage to keep it up super consistently and struggle to find ways to fit stuff in and do it every single day. (Currently I need to rehab an ankle, but I really…
43 | Jet Ski Racer Mouad Salhi: Channeling Your Fear
“It’s all about respect … I’m not going there looking to hurt someone, that’s not my mindset. My mindset is to show them that I’m not afraid of anybody. In a race, if you come close to me, I’ll do whatever it takes for me to win. I’m not going to just let you pass…
42 | Carrie Answers a Question: Claire’s Conundrum
“I’m a distance trail runner, or used to be, and that was the main sport that I pursued and was my passion. And the doctors and therapists all say that it’s not a matter of if I will be able to run again because they said I would be able to. However, if I continued…
41 | Former Pro Freeskier Jamie MoCrazy: Ascending a New Peak
“My story is a miraculous recovery because I beat every expectation for what was going to happen. We believe we can share some of these guides to help others have a miraculous recovery from what they’re going through. Because, as I say, a lot of my luck was created. You can create your own luck…
40 | Dawn’s Dilemma
“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…
39 | Triathlete Lesley Paterson: Channeling Your Passion
“There’s this feeling when you feel like you could fly and when you’re that fit, when you’re that peaked. For me it was always being out in nature, being out on the trails, being connected with the land. And when you can’t do that because you’re in continual chronic pain—that was a travesty. That’s the…