A client came back from space a few years ago. Not a figure of speech. Blue Origin. A few minutes past the Kármán line, the altitude where atmosphere ends and space begins. When we met afterward, I was prepared for…
What elite athletes get wrong about mental performance — and what to build instead By Sharon Chirban, PhD | Clinical Psychologist & Sport Performance Coach There is a moment, before any important performance, when the thinking becomes the problem. You’ve…
Most of us have a last ten percent—the habit we almost broke, the pattern we nearly changed, the version of ourselves we got close to but never fully reached. We’ve done real work. We are, by any honest measure, mostly…
I think of it as a volume problem. I sit with people who are navigating the quiet tension — the layer of pressure, drive, doubt, or longing that hums beneath the surface of a high-performing life. Usually, it’s quiet. It…
Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of WHOOP, had a week. When the Australian Open instructed Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, and Jannik Sinner to remove their WHOOP bands during matches, Ahmed did not issue a quiet corporate statement and move…
When Mikaela Shiffrin crossed the finish line in Milano Cortina last week and dropped to her knees in the snow, most people saw a champion reclaiming her place at the top. What she said in the press conference afterward was…
I recently watched a National Geographic video - first time ever recorded - of 700 emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica making their inaugural trek to the water. Climate change has made the journey harder. What used to be a 1-2…
Balancing a high-pressure career with our personal well-being is challenging enough—and for parents, there’s an added complication: teaching our children about good mental health, too. High-performing parents who struggle with anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, or another mental health challenge…
When we think of eating disorders, we tend to think of physical symptoms—restrictive eating, for example, or rapid weight loss. These symptoms are often indicators of a deeper problem and can be incredibly disruptive to our day-to-day functioning. But we…
When we think of sports leadership, we typically think of game strategy and motivational speeches—at least, that’s what we think of when we only have the movies to guide us! In reality, sports leadership has more to do with the…