Warning: This episode contains reference to suicide and self-harm. If you experience thoughts of ending your life please reach out to someone, including 988, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Always have hope.
Mental illness is obviously not new, but the current push to bring mental health care and reaching out for support has brought the importance of one’s mental health to the forefront of concern for athletes, athletic departments and sport teams. Hearing about other athletes’ and how they navigate times of mental health struggle can help athletes feel less alone and know different ways to navigate darker times. Writer and editor Julie Kliegman shares insights she gathered from interviewing some of the most elite athletes in the world, writing about athlete mental health, and from her own life in this episode of Unit3d.
Please check out Julie Kleiman’s new book Mind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes out now and available on Amazon and other major booksellers.
Warning: This episode contains reference to suicide and self-harm. If you experience thoughts of ending your life please reach out to someone, including 988, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Always have hope.
Mental illness is obviously not new, but the current push to bring mental health care and reaching out for support has brought the importance of one’s mental health to the forefront of concern for athletes, athletic departments and sport teams. Hearing about other athletes’ and how they navigate times of mental health struggle can help athletes feel less alone and know different ways to navigate darker times. Writer and editor Julie Kliegman shares insights she gathered from interviewing some of the most elite athletes in the world, writing about athlete mental health, and from her own life in this episode of Unit3d.
Please check out Julie Kleiman’s new book Mind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes out now and available on Amazon and other major booksellers.