If you’ve ever seen one of those cute online videos of a little kid doing affirmations, you know most of us are born thinking we are pretty cool little people. In fact, decades ago, Robert Fulghum shared in his book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten that if you ask an…
As a former figure skater, then figure skating coach, and now someone who works every day in the field of sport and performance psychology, I think a lot about aesthetic sports. When I say “aesthetic,” I’m referring to sports like figure skating, dance/ballet, gymnastics, etc., where appearance is directly intertwined with the sport or activity….
Let me start this blog post by saying that I’m infinitely glad that social media did not exist when I was an athlete. Gosh, the perfectionist and people-pleaser in me would have been locked in on alllll the likes. Instead, I just focused on dissecting every tiny bit of feedback that was ever offered in…
