I’ve have many proud moments in my life, but one most recently that stands out…on cold dark January evening this year, I was on the phone with none other than the infamous, Matt Fitzgerald (if you don’t know who that is-give it a Google-he won’t disappoint), when he exclaimed, “Marisa, you’ve got some Big Kahunas…and …
It’s January 11th as I write this and if past years predict this year, the concept of renewal, new beginnings, or fresh starts has started to fade. No big surprise here-my sense this is why some of us cringe a bit at those “resolutions”…as they rarely pan out. Instead I’ve been drawn towards the idea …
All this talk of trauma lately….We’ve been hearing it now for two plus years, since the start of the pandemic. It sure seems that in these last couple of years, talk of mental health has become much more mainstream. With that, I’ve also seen an increase in the use of the word “trauma.” What used …
I was recently asked about what could cause one to overtrain or overdue exercise or training from a psychological perspective. Oh boy, that’s a big question! Trying to give a short answer to that seems impossible and almost doesn’t give the subject the adequate answer I believe it deserves. But I will try my best …
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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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 …
Sometimes I find myself almost apologetic with how many times I weave in the nervous system to a client’s mental or emotional state in a session. But then I quickly get past that for one simple reason-the simple reason is “It works!”-why apologize for applying something that actually and factually assists in better mental health …
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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I’ve noticed my own tendency lately (since the Thanksgiving holiday) to retract a bit more into my own safe and serene world, less glitz, less bling, less celebration, my own peaceful quiet world. I suppose if I looked at this as being my own therapist, it’s my own systems reaction or attempt at a counterbalance …
Many of my blog posts come directly from my personal experiences that I try to then craft into a lesson or universal message. This one will be the exception as I will present more direct and clinical (scientific) information. I’m going to try to win you, dear audience, over and make the case for taking …
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