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12/30/2025

🧠🏈 How Elite Sport Reshapes the Nervous System

A recent conversation in my family about Philip Rivers brief return-to-play in the NFL sparked this reflection—and my newest blog.

Elite sport doesn’t just train the body.
It reshapes the autonomic nervous system.

Constant readiness. High pressure. Little recovery.
Over time, this can look like anxiety, shutdown, or never fully feeling “off.”

This isn’t weakness—it’s a nervous system doing its job.

In my latest blog, I share how EMDR Intensives can support athletes, coaches, and leaders in restoring regulation, flexibility, and choice—on and off the field.

https://emdrintensivesforathletes.com/elite-sport-nervous-system-emdr/

12/26/2025

Grateful for this work 🤍

As a therapist working with athletes, I’m constantly reminded how powerful it is when science finally meets lived experience.

Modalities like EMDR, IFS, Polyvagal-informed care, and HeartMath aren’t trends—they’re evidence-based, neuroscience-backed approaches that speak directly to how high-performance sport shapes the nervous system, identity, and stress response.

Athletes aren’t broken.
Their nervous systems are trained.

Years of competing in high-intensity environments condition the body to live in high gear. When injury, burnout, or retirement happens, it’s not a lack of toughness—it’s physiology looking for new ways to regulate.

What gives me hope ✨
We now have tools that help athletes:
• process pressure and injury
• restore nervous system flexibility
• keep their edge without living in survival mode
• heal without losing who they are

Athlete mental health deserves the same level of sophistication as physical performance—and we’re finally there.

Grateful to practice at the intersection of science, sport, and humanity.

12/18/2025

The holiday season can be meaningful for athletes —
and it can also quietly increase mental health stress.

For many athletes, this time of year includes:
✈️ Travel that disrupts routines, sleep, and recovery
👨‍👩‍👧 Family dynamics, expectations, or feeling misunderstood outside of sport
🎯 Performance pressure, injuries, roster uncertainty, or finals overlapping with season
📅 The pressure to “enjoy it” while the nervous system is already taxed

Athletes are trained to push through.
But the nervous system doesn’t respond to grit alone.

As Daniel Siegel reminds us:
“Where attention goes, neural firing flows.”

What we focus on shapes how the brain and body experience stress.

So pause and ask yourself —
Where is your attention right now?

On what’s draining you?
Or on what helps your nervous system regulate, reset, and recover?

Supporting athlete mental health during the holidays means:
✔️ Naming the stressors
✔️ Creating space for regulation
✔️ Valuing rest, connection, and nervous system care — not just performance

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12/15/2025

End-of-year reflections 📚

Back in March, I shared what I was reading at the beginning of the year. As 2025 winds down, this stack represents the books that have shaped my thinking and clinical work in the second half of the year—especially at the intersection of trauma-informed care, EMDR, IFS, and performance enhancement for athletes, coaches and leaders.

Books I’ve been learning from lately ⬇️
• Mind Gym — Mack C. Cassstevens
• How Champions Think — Dr. Bob Rotella
• What Drives Winning Teams — Brett Ledbetter
• EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology — Arielle Schwartz & Barb Maiberger
• Playing the Long Game — Breeze and Schimmel
• Systems Theory in Action — Smith-Acuña
• The Confident Mind — Dr. Nate Zinsser
• IFS Skills Training Manual — Anderson, Sweezy & Schwartz
• EMDR Scripted Protocols — Andrew Luber
• Feeling-State Theory & Protocols for Addictions — Robert Miller, PhD

As someone who offers intensive EMDR therapy for athletes, I believe what we read deeply influences how we show up in the therapy room.

Curious—what have you been reading lately?

12/08/2025

Grateful to have attended this panel and to continue advocating for athlete mental health.

As a clinician, I’m committed to finding teammates who want to change the norms, the dialogue, and the lived experiences of athletes and coaches. Together, we can collaborate to create proactive, sustainable pathways for mental health and wellness in sport.

Deep gratitude to the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry, Maricopa County Medical Society, and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation for making this opportunity possible.

And a special appreciation to Brook Choulet, M.D., Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq., Mark R. Allen, MD, and DJ Foster for sharing their time, insights, and expertise.

12/04/2025

Just for fun see if you can find the squirrel in the photo I just took from my office window, if you need help look at the second picture. These are my winter coworkers some days❄️ on a more serious note. I've been thinking about the flow state.

"Optimal experience happens when our skills meet the challenge, our attention becomes fully absorbed, and everything irrelevant falls away.”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow

In Flow, Csikszentmihalyi highlights research showing that people with flexible attention can reorganize their experiences more easily—making it possible to access flow states more often.

This is exactly where EMDR shines.

EMDR helps the brain strengthen adaptive, flexible neural networks, pulling us out of rigid or chaotic thinking patterns and into more integrated, resilient states. This flexible attention is not just a performance skill…
✨ It’s a cornerstone of mental health.
✨ It’s the foundation of presence, confidence, and clarity.
✨ And it’s trainable.

For athletes, performers, and anyone navigating high-pressure environments, this integration creates the conditions where flow becomes possible—not by accident, but by design.

11/26/2025

EMDR for Performance Enhancement

✨ New Blog Drop! ✨
I just released a new post exploring one of my favorite topics in mental performance:
how EMDR therapy can strengthen an athlete’s felt sense of competence, confidence, and trust in their abilities.

Athletes often tell me:
“I know I’m good… but I don’t always feel it.”

That gap—between skills and embodied confidence—is where performance anxiety, hesitation, and second-guessing show up.
And this is exactly where EMDR can be a game-changer.

In the blog, I break down how EMDR helps athletes:
🔥 Clear mental blocks and old performance wounds
🔥 Reduce anxiety and overthinking
🔥 Strengthen future-self templates
🔥 Rewire limiting beliefs
🔥 Build an internal sense of “I can handle this”
🔥 Step into confident, automatic performance

When confidence becomes felt in the body—not just thought in the mind—everything changes.

If you want to learn more about using EMDR for performance enhancement, leadership, and strengthening your inner athlete, the full blog is live now.

https://emdrintensivesforathletes.com/emdr-therapy-for-performance-enhancement-using-mental-rehearsal-and-when-it-might-be-helpful-for-athletesemdr-therapy-for-athletes-performance-mental-rehearsal/

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11/21/2025

Grateful to bring IFS (Internal Family Systems) + EMDR into the sports world. 🤍🏅
I often tell athletes: you have a whole team inside of you. Each “part” has a role—and all of them are trying to help, even when it doesn’t feel like it.

✨ The Inner Critic
✨ The Perfectionist
✨ The Protector
✨ The Firefighter
✨ And the Exile—the part carrying old wounds from moments of humiliation, injury, rejection, or pressure in sport.

When exiles carry too much pain, protectors step in with extreme strategies… and sometimes firefighters push the feelings away through anger, shutting down, overtraining, or numbing.

IFS helps athletes understand their internal team, restore Self-leadership (the inner coach), and create a more balanced, compassionate internal system.

And when the internal team feels understood and supported, EMDR becomes even more powerful. Processing becomes smoother. Blocks lessen. Integration deepens. Confidence returns. Performance expands.

It’s an honor to bring this work into the athletic space—where healing and performance truly meet. 🧠⚡️💛

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11/14/2025

🌞 Leaning Into Appreciation & Gratitude 🌞

Lately I’ve been reminded how powerful it is to slow down and notice what’s going well — even the small things.
Gratitude isn’t just a mindset shift… it’s a nervous system shift. 💛

One of my favorite tools for this is HeartMath.
It helps the body move into heart–brain coherence, creating:
✨ More calm
✨ More clarity
✨ More resilience

And when paired with EMDR, it becomes even more supportive.
HeartMath helps clients regulate going into sessions, and EMDR helps them process and release what’s been stored. Together, they create a grounded, effective path for healing and performance recovery.

Here’s to centering gratitude, honoring what’s working, and taking care of our nervous systems in real, accessible ways. ✨

11/05/2025

Grateful to be able to balance work and still tune in (virtually 🙌) to today’s TrueSport Talks on prioritizing athlete mental wellness within our sports systems 💙

Huge shoutout to Anna Hall — Go Gators! 🐊 — for sharing so openly about supporting her own mental health and inspiring others to do the same. 💪✨

Also feeling thankful for the amazing panel — love seeing collaboration across people, programs, and organizations all working to advance athlete mental health.

Hearing others speak about breaking stigma, recognizing current strengths, and tackling systemic challenges was powerful.

💬 Collaboration really is the key to lasting cultural change in how we support athlete well-being.

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11/03/2025

It's Monday and most likely you are not in this beautiful, peaceful space in nature. If you are, that's incredible- stop reading now and keep enjoying!
If you're not though, keep reading this post

Our nervous systems weren’t built for this pace.

Constant pressure. Rapid change. High stakes. Little time to recover.

Whether you’re an athlete, coach, or leader — today’s world asks us to perform under levels of stress our bodies were never designed to handle.

That’s why nervous system care isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity.

✨ EMDR intensive work helps your brain and body reset.
It clears old stress patterns and restores calm, focus, and balance — so you can perform, lead, and live from a grounded place again.

If you’ve been running on empty despite doing “all the right things,” this might be your sign to pause and give your system the deeper reset it deserves.

10/17/2025

Curious to learn more about dreams and EMDR therapy?
Ever wake up from the same stress dream — late for the game, can’t find your gear, or frozen under pressure? 💤🏅
For athletes, these recurring dreams aren’t random — they’re your brain’s way of trying to process unhealed stress or performance trauma.

EMDR therapy helps your brain do what it’s already trying to do: finish processing the stress and restore calm.
When your nervous system finally feels safe again, sleep becomes recovery time — not replay time.

Check out my new blog-

https://emdrintensivesforathletes.com/recurring-stress-dreams-the-office-and-emdr-therapy/

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