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🔖 Save this and re-read it in March. 💬 What's your one thing? Drop it below. 👇 Six months from now, will you be proud of...
10/17/2026

🔖 Save this and re-read it in March. 💬 What's your one thing? Drop it below. 👇

Six months from now, will you be proud of this stretch — or wish you'd used it? 📅
Mid-season is where most athletes quietly coast. The novelty is gone, the championship is far enough away to feel unreal, and the daily work stops feeling like it counts.
It counts. Six months of small, boring, repeated decisions is the entire difference between the athlete who peaks in the postseason and the one who is still waiting to feel ready

🧠 Try this today: name ONE thing you'll have done 100 times by spring. One. Write it where you'll see it.

👉 Determine your next steps in one free call: https://www.psych-edge.com/booking-calendar/initial-consultation-1

💬 When pressure hits, what shows up for you? — stomach, hands, or brain? One word. 👇 Does your stomach drop before big g...
10/15/2026

💬 When pressure hits, what shows up for you? — stomach, hands, or brain? One word. 👇

Does your stomach drop before big games? Do you freeze when expectations are high? 😰
Performance anxiety is the #1 reason student-athletes end up in my office. Not lack of talent. Not lack of effort. The body flooding with adrenaline at the exact moment they need to be loose.

Parents, here's what it looks like from the outside: stomachaches on game day. “I don't feel good.” Wanting to skip. Getting quiet in the car on the way there. It reads like avoidance. It's usually fear with nowhere to go.

The fix isn't “just relax” — that fights the physiology. It's giving the body something to do and the mind somewhere to point.
👉 Six tools that actually help — free on the blog: https://www.psych-edge.com/post/tame-performance-anxiety-6-tools-for-student-athletes-parents

👉 Comment “RESET” and I'll DM you the printable 60-second pre-competition routine card.

10/14/2026

ONE MISTAKE. STILL THINKING ABOUT IT? One missed serve. One shanked pass. And suddenly you’re second-guessing the next ball. 🏐

The point is over—but your attention is still there.

If this sounds familiar, practice Aware → Reset → Task:

🧠 AWARE
“I’m replaying that mistake.”
Notice it without getting into an argument with yourself.

🌬️ RESET
Close eyes. Breath in. Eye movement. Breathe out. Briefly picture a moment you played well or correct the mistake—a strong serve, a solid pass, or a great rally.

Head up. Relax your jaw and shoulders. Take on your ‘Power Pose’. Return to your ready stance: knees slightly bent, weight balanced, eyes tracking the ball.

🎯 TASK
Give yourself ONE useful job:
“Move my feet.”

You don’t have to feel completely confident to play the next point. Bring your attention back to what you can do NOW.

Practice this mental reset during volleyball training so it becomes familiar and automatic during a game, before competition pressure shows up.

📲 Send this to a teammate who’s hard on herself after mistakes.

Follow for practical sport psychology tools for volleyball confidence, competition nerves, and focus under pressure.

💬 ADs & coaches: if you could measure one mental skill across your whole program this season, which would you pick? 👇 “H...
10/13/2026

💬 ADs & coaches: if you could measure one mental skill across your whole program this season, which would you pick? 👇

“How would we know it actually worked?” It's the fairest question an athletic director asks me, and most mental training can't answer it. 📊
Most programs in this space measure nothing. You get a speaker, the team feels good for a week, and nobody can tell you what changed. Then it doesn't survive the next budget cycle — and honestly, it shouldn't.
So we built the assessment in from the start. Every athlete takes the PMPI — the PsychEdge Mental Performance Index — before the program and again after. Eight dimensions, same instrument both times.

What an AD gets at the end isn't a feeling. It's a team report: where the group started, where it finished, how many participated, separated by sport, and which dimensions moved. Sometimes the useful finding is the one that didn't move — that's the thing to coach next season.

Boylan HS Football is running it now as one of our pilot programs. We're deliberately starting with one team per school, because a pilot you can measure beats a rollout you can't.

👉 Learn more about the program here: https://www.psych-edge.com/p3-performance

📖 Does your athletic program need mental health support or mental performance training?
👉 Read it (5-minute read): https://www.psych-edge.com/post/does-your-athletic-program-need-mental-health-support-or-mental-performance-training

10/11/2026

Fastest Chicago Marathon Time is 1 hour 59 min, that is 4:34 per mile and 13.2 mph. Right now 62 degrees and sunshine in Chicago. ☀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE 2026 CHICAGO MARATHON!

💬 Athletes — have you ever wanted to walk away? Parents — have you seen it? One word below. 👇 Five years ago I almost qu...
10/11/2026

💬 Athletes — have you ever wanted to walk away? Parents — have you seen it? One word below. 👇

Five years ago I almost quit competing. Here's what changed. 🏊‍♀️
I was burned out. Not physically — mentally. I'd show up to meets and feel… nothing. No nerves, no excitement, no reason to be there. If you've watched your kid go quiet about a sport they used to love, that's what it looks like from the inside.
What changed wasn't a better training block. It was giving myself permission to compete for a different reason than I did at 17 — and rebuilding one small ritual I actually looked forward to.

Parents, this is the part I'd want you to hear: burnout in a teenager rarely announces itself as “I want to quit.” It shows up as flat. As tired. As “I don't care.” That's not laziness. It's usually a kid who's run out of reasons that belong to them.

👉 The tools I used on myself are the ones I teach: https://www.psych-edge.com/onlinecourses

💬 What's the phrase your athlete's inner critic says most? Drop it below and I'll give you a reframe. 👇 Your athlete tal...
10/09/2026

💬 What's the phrase your athlete's inner critic says most? Drop it below and I'll give you a reframe. 👇

Your athlete talks to themselves more than anyone else talks to them. Including you. 🧠
Here's what most parents don't realize: the voice your kid uses after a mistake was learned somewhere. From a coach. From a teammate. From the stands. And once it's installed, it runs on autopilot at the worst possible moment.
The good news is it's a skill, not a personality trait. It can be re-trained, and it doesn't take a therapist's schedule to start.

That's exactly what the Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life course covers — how negative thought patterns form, how to interrupt them, and the real reasons self-talk changes performance. Self-paced, so your athlete can do it around practice.
It's the same approach I use 1-on-1, built into a short course you can start tonight.

👉 Teach them to change it — self-paced online course: https://www.psych-edge.com/onlinecourses

10/07/2026

Athletes: when your brain starts spiraling after a mistake, don’t try to argue with it.

Give it a job. 🧠

AWARE → RESET → TASK

👀 AWARE: Notice the thought without automatically believing it. “There’s my inner critic.”

🌬️ RESET: Breathe out slowly. Drop your shoulders.

🎯 TASK: Focus on ONE controllable action you need to execute next.

❌ “Don’t screw this up again.”
✅ “Watch the ball.”
✅ “Strong first three strokes.”
✅ “Move your feet.”

Mental performance isn’t about eliminating emotion. It’s learning how to refocus and perform when emotion shows up.

One mistake doesn’t need to become three.

💬 What does YOUR inner critic say after a mistake? Comment below—I’ll help you turn it into a next-play cue.

🔖 SAVE this mental reset for your next practice or competition.
📤 SHARE with a teammate who gets stuck in their head.
➡️ Hit that Follow button for more sport and performance psych tips!

Want to work more on your self-talk? My self-paced Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life course helps you recognize and work on thought patterns affecting your confidence and performance.

Visit Psych-Edge.com → Online Courses, or use the link in my bio.

🔖 Coaches — save this for your staff meeting. 👉 Comment “TRANSFER” and I'll DM you the one-page exercise we start teams ...
10/07/2026

🔖 Coaches — save this for your staff meeting. 👉 Comment “TRANSFER” and I'll DM you the one-page exercise we start teams with.

“We don't have time to add anything to practice.” Coaches — you don't have to. 🕒
Every coach I talk to says the same thing. Practice is already full. So the mental side has to cost you almost nothing or it won't survive week three.

Here's the whole weekly footprint:
1️⃣ Athletes watch a 5-minute video lesson
2️⃣ One athlete reflection page with an optional weekly tracker for building consistency. Reflection page to help athletes process the 5-minute video as they follow along. Optional tracking page to use for the week to be consistent and form the habits needed to support mental performance training.
3️⃣ You get a one-page Coach's script, “say this at practice” — Including exercises, such as one cue, used during a drill you're already running. Under 2 minutes.

The programs that stick aren't the ones that add a session. They're the ones that add a habit to the practice that already exists.
💬 What's the real blocker for your program — time, budget, or buy-in? One word. 👇

👉 Here's how it runs inside a season you've already planned: https://www.psych-edge.com/p3-performance

NEW BLOG 📖 Does your athletic program need mental health support or mental performance training?
👉 Read it (5-minute read): https://www.psych-edge.com/post/does-your-athletic-program-need-mental-health-support-or-mental-performance-training

10/06/2026

Being a mental performance specialist doesn’t make me immune to nerves. I train my mental game, too. 💙

I’m Sarah—the person behind PsychEdge.

I’m a Masters swimmer, former sprint triathlete, wife, and mom to a 13-year-old athlete. Most days also include weight lifting and a mile walk or more with my two dogs, Honey and Clemson.

Sports have always been a part of my life. So has helping people navigate the pressure that comes with caring deeply about something.

With a MS in Kinesiology specializing in Sport & Performance Psychology AND a MA in Counseling Psychology, I bring both sides into my work: the person and the performer.

I help athletes work through self-doubt, competition anxiety, mental blocks, transitioning to a higher level of competition, and the uncertainty of returning from injury.

And I kept hearing a practical question from coaches:

“How do we actually fit mental training into our season?”

One coach asked to turn my process into a structured approach that took about 15 minutes a week.

That request became P3—the Performance Potential Program.

The Foundation curriculum includes:
🎥 12 five-minute videos
📋 Coach guides + athlete reflections
🧠 Practical skills for confidence, focus, self-talk, emotional regulation and much more.
📊 Before-and-after mental skills assessments to track progress

For teams, coaches, athletes, and performers ages 13+.

My goal is to make mental skills something you practice regularly—and can use when pressure shows up.

Swipe to meet me and explore P3.

Curious whether it fits your team or your goals? DM me “P3.” I’ll send you the details so you can see what’s included.

Come Get YOUR PsychEdge! 💙

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