A Sports Psychologist on Dealing with Running Injuries

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This enlightening episode is required listening for any and all runners, whether healthy or injured! The guest is Erin Ayala, Ph.D., a sport psychologist and certified mental performance consultant. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, Dr. Ayala talks about:

-personality traits that can precipitate injury (!);

-common mistakes she sees with injured athletes;

-ways to find an empathetic physical therapist;

-an intriguing activity to help during injury downtime;

-revamped goals + little wins for injured athletes.

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0:59.4	The holidays are here, which means two things.
1:01.9	Peppermint Bark Ice Cream is at the grocery store. Yum. And Joy to the Run is happening.
1:07.3	Our annual free and so fun holiday program runs from December 1st to the 31st, and it keeps
1:13.8	you moving forward through the darkest, busiest time of the year. The program is free to all,
1:19.7	and it's open to anybody who just wants a good group community situation. But we are raising
1:25.0	money for Still I Run, a nonprofit organization focused on spreading
1:28.7	the mental health benefits of running. So if you can donate to that, we would love to have you do that,
1:34.0	but we'd love to have you enjoy the run. Either way, check out the link in the show notes,
1:38.5	and we'll see you on December 1st. Welcome to another. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined today by Liz Waterstrat. Hello, Liz.
2:02.0	Hi, Sarah. I hear you Bowen-Shay. I'm joined today by Liz Waterstrat. Hello, Liz. Hi, Sarah.
2:10.1	I hear you also had a boring Thanksgiving. It was so boring. I have no family drama,
2:21.2	no political disagreements, nothing. We didn't even eat turkey. It was just like a normal family sit down. Nice. Well, and I have to say we are recording this the day after we're recording this on Black Friday. So that's the topic is very much on
2:26.0	our minds. So what I, I am intrigued because last night after dinner, I said, so if we never make
2:32.3	turkey again, I'm okay with that.
2:35.1	So what did you have instead?
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