Keagen Hadley: Psychological Flexibility and Life

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Keagen Hadley is a doctor of occupational therapy specializing in using psychological treatments such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with his patients. As a patient and therapist, he has a deep understanding of the interventions and knows how emotional stress can interfere with rehabilitation, daily activities, and overall quality of life.

As an athlete, he tore both ACLs playing college and semi-professional football. This experience made him acutely aware of the struggles associated psychologically post-ACL injury and how to overcome them with positive results.

Learn more about Keagen: https://keagenhadley.com/

Order his Book, “Torn”: https://www.amazon.com/Torn-Overcoming-Psychological-Challenges-Post-ACL-ebook/dp/B09ZRPMSK6

Quotes:

“Human well-being must be at the heart of elite athletic performance.”

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

“A goal has an endpoint. A value is a life direction. A value is often lifelong and gives life meaning and purpose.”

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0:00.0	A single theme is two-hour for great minds and daring hearts.
0:06.6	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host Lauren Stunning.
0:10.8	Today's guest is Keegan Hadley and this conversation was perfect timing as I've recently injured
0:22.8	my MCL at a Jiu-Jitsu tournament and it's the first serious needy that I've had in
0:27.7	over two decades of combat sports.
0:30.6	Keegan's own life path has been pretty tough.
0:33.2	He missed out on a professional sports career from repeated ACL injuries, surgeries and
0:38.4	then spiraled into a depression in the aftermath.
0:41.5	But today he's a doctor of occupational therapy and he's very passionate about keeping his
0:46.8	and his clients and his healthy and strong.
0:50.1	Keegan also just published Torn, overcoming the psychological challenges post ACL surgery,
0:56.8	which I'm about three quarters of the way through and it's a great read.
1:00.7	I hope that you enjoy a conversation.
1:03.4	I'm here with Keegan Hadley and thanks so much for joining me.
1:06.6	My pleasure.
1:07.6	Thank you.
1:08.6	So just for people that don't know, can you give a little bit of background of what you
1:11.9	do right now and then I'd love to go into your backstory once we're done with that?
1:16.4	All right.
1:17.4	So I'm a doctor of occupational therapy.
1:19.6	I'm a psychiatric and neurological clinical researcher in the pharmaceutical industry and
1:24.8	I also work with athletes who have either most prevalent to run their ACL or Achilles
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