Team Sidelined
A podcast launched to support the mental game of sidelined student-athletes, brought to you by Sidelined USA. Whether you’re an athlete facing a temporary obstacle or are permanently sidelined, you’ll find specific, relevant support from others with intimate knowledge of the unique challenges you face. Visit www.SidelinedUSA.org for more resources.
Episodes
14 episodes
The Athlete Experience with Chronic Illness
In this episode we explore the physical, mental and social aspects of dealing with chronic illness as an athlete —— navigating the physical challenges , learning how to advocate for yourself, and managing the tension of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:11:29
Body Dissatisfaction & Maladaptive Behaviors Following Athletic Retirement
It’s not uncommon for athletes to experience body dissatisfaction and body grief in the transition following their retirement from competition. After all, it’s not especially realistic to maintain the same physique as schedules and priorities s...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:38
Thriving in Life After Sports
Every athlete goes through it at some point when the playing days are over — athlete transition. Whether an athletic retirement is caused by being medically sidelined, not being good enough to continue to the next level, or aging out, there are...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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52:35
Sidelined Athlete Support: Guidance for Parents of Sidelined Athletes
We understand how difficult this can be for not only your athlete but also you as well. Your athlete may or may not be opening up about what they’re feeling. They may be resistant to help. They may be isolating or turning to unhealthy coping me...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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57:02
Reframing This Year's Losses: The Power of Transformative Thinking
What a crazy thing to emerge from a full academic year of pandemic impact on sports! You may be tempted to just try and forget about the 2020-2021 athletic season and move on. We get it!!! But what if by taki...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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59:38
Identity Check: How Athletic Identity Shapes Our Response to Setbacks
It’s something we can take for granted — our personal identity and how it shapes our view of self, our perceptions, and our challenges. Often times due to intense personal schedules for athletes, it’s challenging to find time for persona...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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58:47
Athletes, Thoughts of Suicide, & Finding Light Through the Darkness
It’s not something we talk about much. Maybe we don’t know how to start the conversation. Maybe we’re afraid we might get in over our heads. Maybe it’s just not on our radar because we don’t have personal experience with it. But with 1 in 4 you...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:00:54
Cultivating Resilience: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities
What do you do when circumstances outside your control continuously interfere with your plans? . . . When the hits just keep coming and you fear being ultimately blocked off your goals? When optimism seems perhaps, a bit elusiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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45:52
Depression: Getting Help or Concerned for a Friend
Following up on our last full episode, Getting Real About Depression: Four Athletes Discuss Pressures, Identity, & Purpose, we asked Northwestern University’s sports psychiatrist, Bettina Frankel to join us to discuss some lingering questio...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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26:21
Ask the Expert: The Holidays, Triggers, and Mental Health
The holidays are often triggers for mental health struggles on the average year. This year, with the pandemic impact on the holidays combined with lingering emotional impact of the disruption on sports, many more athletes find themselves strugg...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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8:32
Bonus Track -- When the Pandemic Ends Your Athletic Career: Perspective From Four Athletes Who Get It
When an athlete's athletic career is cut short due to circumstances outside their control, we understand just how brutal this can be. All that grinding coming to a halt without the satisfaction of the "natural" sport retirement that you've work...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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16:50
Getting Real About Depression: Four Athletes Discuss Pressures, Identity, & Purpose
A deep dive into the raw feelings of what it is to be an athlete struggling with mental health, what it takes to reach out for help, and what actually works for athletes. Four athletes discuss the internal pressures t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:04:15
Managing Negative & Self-Defeating Thoughts
To be an athlete eager to get back to a regular competition season is to be an athlete dealing with discouragement & frustration. It’s not so simple to “just be positive" right now. Fighting doubts, fears, & discouragements can be fatig...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:00:49
Coping with Loss, Loneliness, & Chronic Stress
Speaking to athletes coping with pandemic-imposed impact on life and sport, Matt Brown, Mental Performance Coach for the Calgary Flames, shares insights on working through what is lost and rebuilding what's possible. Matt explains why at...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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59:16