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With Her Candor, Osaka Adds to Conversation About Mental Health

By Alan Blinder — 2021

In making herself vulnerable, Naomi Osaka joined other noteworthy athletes in pushing a once-taboo subject into the open.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Till the End

A raw, compelling memoir of baseball, family, fame, addiction, and recovery, by one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation “Beautifully rendered . . . Readers and fans will be rooting for him to enter the Hall of Fame and rooting even harder for him to stay sober.

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CC Sabathia, Chris Smith
2025
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What too Much Exercise Does to Your Body and Brain

If working out is good for you, then working out more can only be better for you, right? Not quite. Too many trips to the gym or cardio sessions could actually undo all of those gains you’ve been working towards.

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2018
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Painkillers in the NFL: Kyle Turley on Playing Numb

More than 1,000 former NFL players are addicted to painkillers. Many are without health insurance, or any semblance of a support system.

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2015
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From Drug Addiction to Grocery Store Clerk to NFL Star: Darren Waller’s Incredible Journey

Darren Waller is one of the NFL’s best tight ends. His “cheat code” to playing at a high level? Sobriety. He’s a survivor of an addiction that nearly cost him everything.

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2020
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The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery

In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

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Thad Ziolkowski
2025
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Impact of ADHD on Sports Psychology from a Sports Psychiatrist

Meet Andrew J. Cutler, M.D., sports psychiatrist for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In this episode of Attention Talk Video, host Jeff Copper talks with Dr.

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2013
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John Bradshaw - The Relationship Between Shame and Depression

Dr. John Bradshaw is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows treatment program in Wickenburg Az discusses his belief that shame impacts the brain and its impact on depression.

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2011
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Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player

Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier.

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Glenn Burke, Erik Sherman
2015
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Ever wonder what your therapist is really thinking? Now you can find out ... Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems.

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Lori Gottlieb
2025
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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives.

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John Bradshaw
2005
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