I’m going to say something that youth sports parents hate hearing.
Your kid might not be that good.
And that’s okay.
Not every 10-year-old throwing 57 mph is the next college All-American.
Not every kid dominating at 12 is going to dominate at 18.
But somewhere along the way youth sports turned into this weird arms race where every kid is being marketed like a future D1 commit before they’ve even hit puberty.
Private lessons.
Travel teams.
Showcases.
Recruiting talk at 13.
Meanwhile half these kids are burnt out before high school.
Here’s the part people don’t want to hear:
The best athletes usually aren’t the ones being overhyped at 11.
They’re the ones who are still in love with the game at 17.
Still working.
Still competing.
Still hungry.
Youth sports shouldn’t be about building the next Instagram highlight reel.
It should be about building athletes who don’t quit when the game gets hard.
And trust me…
That usually shows up way later than everyone thinks. 🔥
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Praxis Wellness LLC
Sam Lima - Clinical Director
LMHC-S, NCC, CCMHC, CEAP
Sam is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Clinical Director at Praxis Wellness LLC. In private practice Sam works with individuals, couples and families navigating the milieu of Real Life! The struggles of transitions; youth-to-adulthood, education, career, marriage, divorce, death, birth and more - each can be faced with compassion and pragmatism. As an experienced clinician Sam can be there to help sort through and develop strategies to address the emotional, mental and physical issues - challenging and providing counsel.
Through Praxis we provide a range of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services and counseling to professional sports organization's athletes, staff and families. As EAP Director to the Toronto Blue Jays and as EAP Coordinator for the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball organizations, Sam is passionate in supporting and working with athletes and their families as they navigate life's challenges in a highly competitive stressful environment.
The integration of professional training, education and experiences position Sam to be uniquely qualified to advise and provide education to business organizations and government agencies on issues of mental health and wellness.
As a parent of four, now adult children and a step-father to a blossoming beautiful teenage daughter Sam has acquired a wealth of knowledge and scars from the trenches, in the realm of family life. Families with children struggling with issues due to separations, divorce and blended families, will find a competent ally in Sam.
As a former Marine, with a distinguished 25 year career, Sam has high expectations of character, behavior, discipline and organization ~ this is tempered with empathy and understanding of our human frailty. His experience leading and supporting Marines through training, deployments, and career transitions is instrumental in his counseling work today.
Sam is a native Spanish speaker, having immigrated to the US with his parents and siblings from Cuba in 1968 as part of the "Freedom Flights" - he truly won the Lottery! Sam has lived the immigrant experience, landing in New Jersey and experiencing all the complexities of cultural assimilation. Today his experiences, language and cultural skills are instrumental in providing information and training to organizations in a bilingual setting, as well as counseling individual clients in their native language.
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