THE MENTAL GAME Sports Podcast
Larissa created, "The Mental Game Academy" in sports podcast is to help support athletes and bring awareness to interpersonal skills much needed in sports today. It takes a village to develop young athletes, parents, coaches and trainers even refs and how are act around them and demonstrates emotions plays a key role in their social development and over all athletic success. We are interviewing athletes, professional and amateur, coaches, refs and parents that all want to see changes in sports to help our athletes to prevent mental health issues before they happen. Ultimately, athletes need emotional intelligence and resilience to further their career and time spent learning these skills will help them more in their athletic journey's.
THE MENTAL GAME Sports Podcast
"The Bullied Brain"it can be Healed with Dr. Jennifer Fraser
More and more athletes are bullying each other, they are cyberbullying on a team app, making their teammates lives miserable.
We have learned that children are experiencing more abusive coaching. today. In fact, 1-5 kids have stated they were abused through yelling, humiliatory, punitive methods or being sworn at and through threatening statements. This number jumps when you survey retired athletes.
stats:
https://globalnews.ca/news/5250320/canadian-athletes-psychological-abuse-signs/
Jennifer is an award-winning educator and best-selling author.
She was pulled into a crisis at a school where teachers were bullying students.
Her new book "The Bullied Brain", https://www.bulliedbrain.com/ looks at the science of what all forms of bullying and abuse does to brains.
She learned brain scans show that bullying and abuse do visible damage to the brain.
Even more important, she discovered that our brains are adept at repair and restoration