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Mental Challenges Runners Face Recovering From an Injury


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On most occasions, coming back from an injury takes time. And not enough people talk about the mental struggles that Runners have to face when coming back from an injury. The mental side of running and injury is often times overlooked. As runners, we manage our schedules around when we can run, and when running is taken away from us for whatever reason that is, it hurts. So, in this episode,  Dr. Shelly Sheinbein  discusses…

  • 3 Main Mental and Emotional Challenges That Runners Face When Dealing with A Sport Injury
  • Runner’s Identity and Is It Healthy?
  • Ways To Cope and Manage The Mental and Emotional Challenges That Come With Injury
    • Visualization
    • Goal setting
    • Listening to your body


Dr. Shelly Sheinbein is a licensed sport and counseling psychologist who provides individual therapy to adults through her private practice and at Crossover Health. She is a college athlete, avid runner, and has a passion for all outdoor activities. Her therapeutic style is very collaborative, compassionate, strength-based, social justice-informed, and thought-provoking. She has helped athletes at all levels recover from sport injury, manage re-injury anxiety, build mental toughness, improve focus, optimize performance, and achieve their athletic goals. She also has specialties in working with the LGBTQ+ community, addressing gender and sexual identity, and managing anxiety and depression. She is committed to helping individuals develop a deeper understanding of themselves and relies on her attention to details, transparency, and expression of genuine care to cultivate connection. Shelly draws from a wide range of evidence-based approaches including ACT, CBT, and DBT which emphasize mindfulness, increasing cognitive flexibility, building distress tolerance, and developing growth-fostering connections to promote sustainable change. To Learn more and request an appointment go to https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/shelly-sheinbein-portland-or/936737

States Shelly is licensed

  • California 
  • Washington
  • Oregon
  • Colorado
  • Montana
  • Wyoming 
  • Idaho
  • Utah 


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  • Website
    • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/shelly-sheinbein-portland-or/936737


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