Climb Your Mountain

This week, I share some of my key takeaways after watching the HBO Documentary The Weight of Gold. Even as a recreational athlete, I related to many of the struggles these Olympians went through. If you saw, the documentary, message me and tell me what you thought!

Resources Mentioned:

• The Weight of Gold (film)
• Sarah's Instagram

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Hey friends, just a little life update on some mistakes I was making and how I'm fixing them. Enjoy!

Resources Mentioned:

• Join my email list for random life updates and bonus tips

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

• Brooke Castillo podcast on the compound effect
• My reverse goal setting podcast episode
• My Instagram post on the impact of writing 50 words a day
• My website which is a Linktree 😂 

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Here's a little brain hack you can use to knock down unwanted food and alcohol cravings, anxiety, anger, overwhelm, or any other emotion that tends to come up at the worst possible time for you. It only takes 10 seconds, and even if you're in a crowd of people, no one will know you're doing it. 

Resources Mentioned

• Follow Sarah in IG – check out new pattern interrupts
• Sign up for my emails – big biz announcements coming soon!
• Work with me! To get started, just email [email protected]

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

It's great to be obsessed with your sport and the community around it.

Until ...

• There's a pandemic and a lockdown
• You get hurt
• You come down with some kind of chronic illness that makes exercise hard
• Something happens in the community that's against your values and that you can't get behind
• You get ostracized by that community for whatever reason
• Etc.

So what's the antidote? Building a RAT PARK.

What the cheese balls am I talking about?

It's a concept from addiction science.

The gist: having a rich and pleasurable life is good insurance against compulsive and self destructive behavior.

(Including, ahem, exercising and achieving excessively as ways to avoid facing your problems.)

This week on the Climb Your Mountain podcast, we're going to talk about all the reasons it's worth having a rich and pleasurable life OUTSIDE your sport.

Listen, learn, and get to work creating your own rat park.

Resources Mentioned:

• Savage Summit [Book] (aff.)

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

If you're learning a new skill or trying to form a new habit, you can speed up the process by using your imagination to practice. Your brain doesn't know the difference between real or imagined experiences, so use that to your advantage! In today's episode, I take you through a self hypnosis practice you can use for mental rehearsal. It literally takes just a minute or two, but it can pay off big results if you use it frequently. Big time sports psychologists charge $5000 for this, but I'm giving to you free as a Valentine's Day gift. Ready? Let's do this.

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

So your work meeting went over and cut your workout time in half. Should you even bother? FY! In this episode, I'll share how little workouts add up to big results over time, plus some tip to keep you moving under even the crappiest life circumstances.

Resources Mentioned:

• How to Be an Imperfectionist book by Stephen Guise (aff. link)
• Get my weekly emails (it's like a bonus podcast episode!)

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Are you spinning in confusion trying to choose the perfect training plan for your next ultramarathon, hike, or mountain climb? Awesome, because in this episode I cut through the perfectionist crap and show you why MANY training plans will work great for you.  We'll talk about how all training plans are actually guesswork, how most things about endurance training are made up, and why you should never let the training plan make decisions for you. I'll also walk you through a quick and dirty process for picking your plan.

Resources Mentioned:

• Time-Crunched Cyclist (aff. link)

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

My best time hack for busy athletes? It's not a calendar. It's not an app. It's something that's completely free and available to all.

It's called trusting yourself. And that's simple, but far from easy.

In today's podcast, I'll share three ways that trusting yourself can help you get more done with less struggle — plus tips on how to make it happen.

Resources Mentioned

• Join my email list

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Do you believe you have to be mean to yourself to excel at endurance training, running, or mountaineering? You probably beat yourself up because it's worked in the past. But here's a secret: there's something that will work even better. And in this podcast, I'm going to share it with you. And even better, I'm going to walk you through a process to teach your brain to think that way. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Byron Katie — The Work

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].