Marisa Asplund

Improve you Biology, Improve your Psychology (mental health)

In this post, I’m going to jump out of the “athletic” arena and get into more gritty universal science and mental health stuff. (all applicable to athletes).  Years back when I first started learning about this “Biology First” model of therapy/counseling, and as expressed in a previous post, I was a skeptic but at the …

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Nervous System Stoke: Part 2 (why this matters)

My complete passion (and commitment) to working differently with athlete’s mental health-a departure from old-school “mental toughness” models to a biologically based nervous system approach stems from one simple reason:  IT WORKS!  Really.  I’ve never been one to jump on bandwagons or trends, easily spotting the charlatans in the bunch, so when I first started …

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Enhance Motivation (happiness, purpose and often performance)

There are no hacks here.  Unfortunately.  As with many of the topics I bring up in my blogs, there are no short-cuts, fads, Instagram glam shots.  To really find motivation that is both sustainable, easily accessible, and that promotes an overall sense of happiness and contentedness…we gotta do our homework.  So in this blog of …

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