Latest Covid sports Podcast Episodes
The Athlete Experience with Chronic Illness
Team Sidelined - July 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode we explore the physical, mental and social aspects of dealing with chronic illness as an athlete —— navigating the physical challenges , learning how to advocate for yourself, and managing the tension of the “athletic mentality" with the realistic need to listen to your body. W...
Body Dissatisfaction & Maladaptive Behaviors Following Athletic Retirement
Team Sidelined - February 28, 2023 15:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s not uncommon for athletes to experience body dissatisfaction and body grief in the transition following their retirement from competition. After all, it’s not especially realistic to maintain the same physique as schedules and priorities shift when the competition days come to an end. What’...
Thriving in Life After Sports
Team Sidelined - February 21, 2023 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEvery athlete goes through it at some point when the playing days are over — athlete transition. Whether an athletic retirement is caused by being medically sidelined, not being good enough to continue to the next level, or aging out, there are common themes and pitfalls many athletes in transit...
Sidelined Athlete Support: Guidance for Parents of Sidelined Athletes
Team Sidelined - March 03, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe understand how difficult this can be for not only your athlete but also you as well. Your athlete may or may not be opening up about what they’re feeling. They may be resistant to help. They may be isolating or turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms. So what can you do to break through and pr...
Sidelined Athlete Support: Guidance for Parents of Sidelined Athletes
Team Sidelined - March 03, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe understand how difficult this can be for not only your athlete but also you as well. Your athlete may or may not be opening up about what they’re feeling. They may be resistant to help. They may be isolating or turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms. So what can you do to break through and pr...
Reframing This Year's Losses: The Power of Transformative Thinking
Team Sidelined - June 29, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat a crazy thing to emerge from a full academic year of pandemic impact on sports! You may be tempted to just try and forget about the 2020-2021 athletic season and move on. We get it!!! But what if by taking some time to decompress and process what was lost and what was not to be, we can gai...
Reframing This Year's Losses: The Power of Transformative Thinking
Team Sidelined - June 29, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat a crazy thing to emerge from a full academic year of pandemic impact on sports! You may be tempted to just try and forget about the 2020-2021 athletic season and move on. We get it!!! But what if by taking some time to decompress and process what was lost and what was not to be, we can gai...
Identity Check: How Athletic Identity Shapes Our Response to Setbacks
Team Sidelined - April 21, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s something we can take for granted — our personal identity and how it shapes our view of self, our perceptions, and our challenges. Often times due to intense personal schedules for athletes, it’s challenging to find time for personal reflection on “lofty” things such as how we find our self...
Athletes, Thoughts of Suicide, & Finding Light Through the Darkness
Team Sidelined - March 09, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s not something we talk about much. Maybe we don’t know how to start the conversation. Maybe we’re afraid we might get in over our heads. Maybe it’s just not on our radar because we don’t have personal experience with it. But with 1 in 4 young people having considered suicide during the pande...
Cultivating Resilience: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities
Team Sidelined - February 10, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat do you do when circumstances outside your control continuously interfere with your plans? . . . When the hits just keep coming and you fear being ultimately blocked off your goals? When optimism seems perhaps, a bit elusive? This is a time for building resiliency and investing in your ment...
Depression: Getting Help or Concerned for a Friend
Team Sidelined - January 06, 2021 03:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFollowing up on our last full episode, Getting Real About Depression: Four Athletes Discuss Pressures, Identity, & Purpose, we asked Northwestern University’s sports psychiatrist, Bettina Frankel to join us to discuss some lingering questions. In this quick 30 minute episode, Dr. Frankel address...
Ask the Expert: The Holidays, Triggers, and Mental Health
Team Sidelined - December 18, 2020 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe holidays are often triggers for mental health struggles on the average year. This year, with the pandemic impact on the holidays combined with lingering emotional impact of the disruption on sports, many more athletes find themselves struggling in some capacity with mental health. We wondere...
Ask the Expert: The Holidays, Triggers, and Mental Health
Team Sidelined - December 18, 2020 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe holidays are often triggers for mental health struggles on the average year. This year, with the pandemic impact on the holidays combined with lingering emotional impact of the disruption on sports, many more athletes find themselves struggling in some capacity with mental health. We wondere...
Bonus Track -- When the Pandemic Ends Your Athletic Career: Perspective From Four Athletes Who Get It
Team Sidelined - December 14, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen an athlete's athletic career is cut short due to circumstances outside their control, we understand just how brutal this can be. All that grinding coming to a halt without the satisfaction of the "natural" sport retirement that you've worked so hard for and rightfully earned-- we get it. T...
Getting Real About Depression: Four Athletes Discuss Pressures, Identity, & Purpose
Team Sidelined - December 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA deep dive into the raw feelings of what it is to be an athlete struggling with mental health, what it takes to reach out for help, and what actually works for athletes. Four athletes discuss the internal pressures they faced struggling through mental health challenges - the loss of drive, the...
Managing Negative & Self-Defeating Thoughts
Team Sidelined - November 09, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTo be an athlete eager to get back to a regular competition season is to be an athlete dealing with discouragement & frustration. It’s not so simple to “just be positive" right now. Fighting doubts, fears, & discouragements can be fatiguing with no real assurances about a return to normalcy. So ...
Coping with Loss, Loneliness, & Chronic Stress
Team Sidelined - October 07, 2020 02:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSpeaking to athletes coping with pandemic-imposed impact on life and sport, Matt Brown, Mental Performance Coach for the Calgary Flames, shares insights on working through what is lost and rebuilding what's possible. Matt explains why athletes have it harder than the general population in coping...
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