The Injured Athletes Club Podcast
Expert advice and inspirational stories on coming back (stronger!) from injury
Paralympic Javelin Thrower Justin Phongsavanh: Building a Dream
“All right, there are two options: You can get going and see what you can do with this life, or you can give up. And I said, option one’s too easy, I don’t like taking the easy road out. I’m going to see what I can do. I’m going to see the capabilities I have as a...
Carrie Answers a Question: Frances’ Fear
Posted on June 10, 2021 What I am struggling with the most right now is the paralyzing fear of re-injury. What else can you suggest for the person who has a debilitating fear of re-injury who has tried everything in Rebound and tends to outsmart themselves by...
Pro Runner Vanessa Fraser: Celebrating Every Step
“I just wish I could go back and tell myself a year ago how great I’m feeling a year later … to have that kind of foresight that it’s going to get a lot better. I’m going to look back on this one day and think, wow, I won’t even be able to believe that I was there at...
Carrie and Cindy Rebuild Your Confidence
“So many of us seek out this idea that we want to feel confident all the time in whatever it is that we’re doing—that if we feel confident, that means that we’re never going to feel doubt. And that is just not true. That’s why I like to talk about confidence as not...
Equestrian Hannah Selleck: A New View on Training
“My visualization was imagining myself and my horse in a protective white light, and that we were protected over the jumps, the whole course. The next competition, I remember thinking, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work, but we’ll give it a try.’ We went in and...
Jet Ski Racer Mouad Salhi: Channeling Your Fear
“It’s all about respect … I’m not going there looking to hurt someone, that’s not my mindset. My mindset is to show them that I’m not afraid of anybody. In a race, if you come close to me, I’ll do whatever it takes for me to win. I’m not going to just let you pass...
Former Pro Freeskier Jamie MoCrazy: Ascending a New Peak
“My story is a miraculous recovery because I beat every expectation for what was going to happen. We believe we can share some of these guides to help others have a miraculous recovery from what they’re going through. Because, as I say, a lot of my luck was...
Triathlete Lesley Paterson: Channeling Your Passion
“There’s this feeling when you feel like you could fly and when you’re that fit, when you’re that peaked. For me it was always being out in nature, being out on the trails, being connected with the land. And when you can’t do that because you’re in continual chronic...
Former WNBA Player and Ph.D. Candidate ShaRae Mansfield: Coping with Chronic Pain
“It was like being a part of a book and finally figuring out the cause of all the pain, the cause of the injuries. Everything started coming together. Just thinking back, I had to ask myself, how in the world did I continue to play?” ShaRae Mansfield was a superstar...
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