#172: Dr Erin Ayala on Values, Mental Health & Redefining Self Care

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

English - November 07, 2021 09:00 - 58 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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I’m delighted to welcome Dr Erin Ayala to the podcast this week.

Erin is a Licensed Psychologist, a certified Mental Performance Consultant and is listed as a licensed mental health provider on the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s Mental Health Register.

What I love about Erin’s perspective is that it’s holistic: she recognises that daily life, health and athletic performance are intertwined and inseparable from one another.

When she’s not at work, Erin is also an endurance athlete (having completed 9 marathons and 1 Ironman) and these days is focused on life as an elite cyclist.

On top of that, she recently co-founded a cycling team called Stamina Racing Collective which prioritises people who would traditionally struggle to find a home in cycling (especially, black, indigenous, people of colour and non-binary and trans athletes)

In this conversation, we discuss the power of values, the difficult decisions she had made based on those values and her surprising definition of self-care.