281 Coaching PTSD: Not Letting Your Past Impact Your Present
Jan 29, 2023
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This podcast dives into the impact of past traumatic experiences on coaches, highlighting the breakdown of trust and negative perceptions it can cause. It explores how trauma shapes our perception and defense mechanisms, using triggers and anxiety as examples. The importance of seeking help for mental health issues and engaging in open communication is also discussed.
Internal changes have a significant impact on external experiences.
Sharing past traumatic experiences with trusted individuals can help coaches gain support and challenge negative patterns.
Deep dives
Importance of Internal Changes for Personal Growth
To truly change one's life, it is essential to look inward, understand and love oneself, and heal any trauma or conditioning in the mind. Internal changes have a significant impact on external experiences.
The Influence of Coaching Experiences
Coaches should reflect on their own experiences as players and coaches, including both positive and negative aspects. Understanding how we were coached can shape how we go on to coach others.
The Lingering Effects of Traumatic Experiences
Traumatic events in coaching, such as losing players or facing criticism, can leave lasting scars. These scars can trigger negative reactions and impact decision-making, leading to coaching out of fear.
Working through Trauma and Building Support
Sharing past traumatic experiences with trusted individuals, such as administrators, captains, or even players, can help coaches gain support, ground themselves in reality, and challenge negative patterns. Seeking help from professionals like therapists or mentors can also be beneficial in working through triggers and fostering personal growth.
True change starts on the inside and these internal changes have a significant external impact. After reading Yung Pueblo’s book, Clarity & Connection, JP connected these truths to the journey of a coach. In this conversation between JP and Nate, they share stories from past experiences and how those memories can trigger anxious feelings if they are not replaced with assurances and affirmations in a new, stable situation.
√ Pattern recognition can bring positive change
√ Affirmation from administration can have empowering results
√ Seek help from others that can relate and give reassurance
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