Mental Health Strategies

Mental health is just as crucial for athletes as physical health, but it's often overlooked in competitive sports. Athletes face unique pressures, including performance expectations, injuries, and the demands of balancing training with personal life. Here are some effective mental health strategies that can benefit athletes and are easily incorporated into your daily routine:

Mindfulness Techniques - Learn more about ways you can introduce mindfulness into your daily routine like journaling, breathing techniques, and grounding strategies. 

Positive Self-Talk - Learn more about how valuable it is to speak to yourself in a kind way.

Cognitive Reframing - Learn more about how to change the way you think to positively impact your overall well-being.

Mental Practice/Visualization - Learn more about how mental practice can positively impact your performance as an athlete.

Wind-Down Routine - Learn more about the importance of maintaining a routine as an athlete.

Behavioral Activation - Learn more about an intervention involving implementing tasks into your routine that promote positive feelings.

Stress Management Training - Learn more about how to manage the stress that comes with being a student-athlete.

Peer Support - Learn more about the importance of the people you surround yourself with.

Relationship with Coach - Learn more about how important your relationship with your coach can be for your mental health.

Separation from Sport is Unrealistic! - Learn more about how you are a human first, then athlete.

Balance is Bullsh*t! - Learn more about how to efficiently juggle all the tasks that come with being a student-athlete.

You Can Make a Difference! - Learn more about how you - a student-athlete - can make an impact on how mental health is prioritized at your school and within athletics.