by Carrie Jackson | Oct 13, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
Anyone who’s met Carrie Tollefson, seen her covering running events on national broadcasts, or listened to her podcast C Tolle Run would likely describe her as a positive person. She’s known for both her Minnesota kindness and her optimistic tagline, “Get after it.”...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 13, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
Injuries affect essentially every athlete. The experience is as much mental as physical. But typically, the support athletes receive during this time has focused mostly on healing joints, bones, and tendons—not thoughts, emotions, and experiences. As a mental skills...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 12, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
At the end of 2011, Meghan Duggan started a life changing journey. She had a 14-month recovery from a concussion that had her questioning whether or not she would be able to return to her sport. Not only did she return, but she lead the USA Women’s Hockey team...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 12, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
On some level, we all know what stress feels like—a sense of panic, a pounding heart and quicker breath, a notion that we’re overwhelmed and just can’t handle it all. In fact, we “get stressed” so much it seems like we could even call it a worldwide...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 12, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
When you’re on top of the world after a major victory—say, an Olympic gold medal (or two)—it’s relatively easy to think positively. But David Wise has had his fair share of challenges surrounding his greatest achievements. Through his work on mental skills, though,...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 12, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
Even the strongest, most resilient athletes might explode in anger or sink into despair in the face of unanticipated setbacks. You can’t always control that reflexive reaction. But it is often possible to pause, take a beat, and change your response—the thoughts you...
by Carrie Jackson | Jun 22, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
In this episode of The Injured Athletes Club podcast, Cindy and I get the chance to talk with the founder of the High Fives Foundation Roy Tuscany. While pursuing his dream of becoming a pro free-skier, Roy suffered a devastating injury that would change the course of...
by Carrie Jackson | Jun 22, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
It’s a Carrie and Cindy episode!! That means we are talking about a specific Mental Training Drill you can do to help build resilience on your injury journey. Sometimes when you are coming back from an injury, your body is healed before your mind is. You might...
by Carrie Jackson | Jun 22, 2019 | Injured Athletes, The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
In this episode of The Injured Athletes Club podcast Cindy got to catch up with runner (10x Boston Marathoner!) and coach Julie Sapper while they were both out at the 2019 Boston Marathon. Unfortunately, Julie was supposed to be racing that day, but tore her meniscus...