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How Athletes Can Cope With Getting Benched

By Patrick Cohn

When you are benched and forced to face adversity, you have a great opportunity to develop the skill of mental toughness.

Read on www.peaksports.com

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Olympic Athletes Biles, Osaka Shift the Conversation on Mental Health | WSJ

Simone Biles’s withdrawal from competitions at the Tokyo Olympics has put renewed focus on mental health in sports. WSJ looks at how the stigma and treatment for athletes’ state of mind has shifted.

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Simone Biles
2021
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How this Sports Psychologist Trains NFL Players’ Brains | The Assist | GQ Sports

These days in the NFL, every team has a sports psychologist who looks out for the players’ mental health. Meet Mike Gervais, the sports psychologist for the Seattle Seahawks.

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2019
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You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

Why is life getting harder instead of easier? How do I get back up after life knocks me down? And how do I grow stronger and live more intentionally? We no longer have the tools to handle failure…or even perceived failure. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. When we spill, we splatter.

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Neil Pasricha
2025
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This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!

This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems.

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David Grand, Alan Goldberg
2025
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The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games.

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George Mumford
2025
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Maharishi - Eliminating Stress and Stabilizing Unbounded Awareness

Maharishi describes the mechanics of eliminating stress and it's role stabilizing unbounded awareness in daily life.

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
2011
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Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing

Imagine being less stressed, more focused, and happier every day of your life. An instant New York Times bestseller, Start Here outlines a program designed to help you achieve emotional fitness by cross-training the skill of lifelong wellbeing.

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Eric Langshur, Nate Klemp
2017
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How to Manage Stress | Medibank

Jonni Pollard is a meditation teacher. Here he talks about 'eyes closed silence' and how it can help you manage stress.

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Jonni Pollard
2012
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Let's Get Meditating - Susie Q Interviews Jonni Pollard of 1 Giant Mind

Over the coming weeks on A Lust for Life our intention is to get as many of you as possible meditating every day, helping you to establish a daily practice. We are hugely passionate about helping you to learn to meditate because we know from personal experience that the benefits are life changing.

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Jonni Pollard
2016
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The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy

Millions of Americans try drugs or talk therapy to relieve depression and anxiety, but recent scientific studies prove certain alternative treatments can work as well or better-often bringing on a cure.

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David Servan-Schreiber
2005
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