More Than Skill

This week is Children's Mental Health Awareness Week! In Today's episode Kara delivers tips on how to create a supportive culture in your program. She also discusses the importance of giving our young athletes the tools they need to improve their mental health.

As your season comes to an end and you're facing the championship event, how are you mentally preparing your youth athletes? The pressure is high, it's a new environment, and you want to make sure your athletes are ready for the moment- listen in for all the tips!

Law of Attraction is a tricky concept to teach to children. In this episode, Kara breaks down 2 techniques that will help your athletes bring about their desires. Both concepts are easy to understand and implement for kids.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: If you seek out evidence of your failures, you WILL find it.

This is the Big Kahuna of Mental Strategies. Don't walk- RUN to do this powerful visualization with your athletes at your next practice. It's not only a blast, but is the best strategy yet for FEELING success.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: You are worthy!

In this episode, Kara will take you through the different schools of thought surrounding willpower. She'll discuss ways to make the concept of willpower accessible and engaging for youth athletes. Take away 4 actionable steps for increasing willpower in your athletes and children.

Sick of hearing about implementing a gratitude practice? Feeling in genuine when you do take the time to be thankful? Not sure where to start? In this episode, Kara shares how she FINALLY (accidentally) found a gratitude practice that works AND hold her accountable throughout the entire year. Tune in and share this mental strategy with your athletes!

Mental Strategy Tidbit: Be open to receiving feedback

The pressure of competing is so real! How do we help our athletes cope with the jitters right before they take the stage or the field? What about those athletes that seem to lose control in the final moments before they compete? In this episode, Kara talk about 5 things you can do to help your athletes overcome the pressure they feel before competing.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: Find the silver lining.

Do you ever find yourself giving up before you've even started? Or calling a loss or failure before it happens? Convincing yourself that something negative will happen feels better than getting your hopes up and getting let down. That's called defensive pessimism and its the topic of today's episode. Kara will talk about what it looks like, if its beneficial and how we can help our athletes if they fall into the cycle.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: Body Language

Happy Halloween! For athletes ready to take their game to the next level, Kara provides 10 tips to help you go above and beyond. From being aware of your thoughts to fueling your body correctly- it all matters when you want to take the next step.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.

Our athletes and children are under an insane amount of pressure. They feel it from school, from parents, coaches and themselves. Where do we draw the line between keeping them involved and keeping them healthy? Kara talks about what toxic achievement looks like and the one thing kids needs to feel to experience healthy levels of achievement.

Mental Strategy Tidbit: Never Worry Alone.