Beyond the Highlight Reel: What Social Media Doesn’t Show

Beyond the Highlight Reel: What Social Media Doesn’t Show

Social media has transformed the way athletes connect, learn, and share their journeys. It can be a powerful tool for finding inspiration, motivation, celebrating accomplishments, building community, and staying connected to the sports we love. At the same time,...
You Asked, Greenepsych Answers

You Asked, Greenepsych Answers

Greene Lights Newsletter · Issue #7 Our clinicians and coaches respond to your real questions about performance, parenting, and the mental side of sport. Spring Edition   MK | Micheal Ketner | Music Therapist | michael@greenepsych.com Your Question: “I am...
Reflection for Sports Parents

Reflection for Sports Parents

At some point, every sports parent reaches the end of the road. The early morning practices, the long tournament weekends, the emotional highs and lows – they eventually give way to something quieter. Reflection. This past Saturday, my youngest son’s college...

The Athlete’s Paradox: Competition, Ego, and Presence

The Milano Cortina Winter Olympics closed with a closing ceremony in a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater in Verona. But the most memorable moments hadn’t happened in the ceremony. They’d happened on the slopes and the ice, in the spaces between...