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Resilience Rally @resiliencerally
Untold Athletes @untoldathletes
Players Tribune @playerstribune
Just Women’s Sports @justwomenssports
Togetherxr @togetherxr
Voice in Sport @voiceinsport
The Athlete Triad Coalition @theathletetriad
General Book Recommendations
The Dance of Intimacy (Harriet Lerner)
The Dance of Anger (Harriet Lerner)
Brave, Not Perfect (Reshma Saujani)
The Self Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control over their Lives (William Stixrud and Ned Johnson)
Delivering Happiness (Tony Hsieh)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
Good for a Girl (Lauren Fleshman)
What Made Maddy Run (Kate Fagan)
Intuitive Eating (Eveyln Tribole & Elyse Resch)
Another Chance: Hope & Health for the Alcoholic Family (Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse)
Student Athlete Recommendations
Documentaries:
Running From Crazy (Amazon Prime)
The Mind Explained (Netflix)
Naomi Osaka (Netflix)
Weight of Gold (HBO)
Being Serena (HBO)
Tokyo Rising (Amazon Prime)
Untold: Breaking Point (Netflix)
Athlete A (Netflix)
Andy Murray: Resurfacing (Amazon Prime)
Brene Brown: The Call to Courage (Netflix)
Mindset Podcasts
Books
The Inner Game of Tennis (Timothy Gallwey)
How to Train a Wild Elephant (Jan Chozen Bays)
Choke (Sian Beilock)
The Energy Bus (John Gordon)
Thinking Body, Dancing Mind (Chungliang Al Huang & Jerry Lynch)
The Gifts of Imperfection (Brene Brown)
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grove)
Heads Up Baseball (Ken Ravizza)
How Champions Think (Bob Rotella)
Grit: The Power or Passion and Perseverance (Angela Duckworth)
The Mountain Is You (Brianna Wiest)
Coach Recommendations
Win Like a Girl: Coaching Female Athletes to Become Confident at the Game of Life (Maureen Monte)
The Long Win (Cath Bishop)
Hidden Potential (Adam Grant)
The Champion Teammate (John O’Sullivan and Dr. Jerry Lynch)
Championship Behaviors (Hugh McCutcheon)
The Tough Stuff: Seven Hard Truths about Being a Head Coach (Cody Royle)
Second Set of Eyes: How Great Coaches Become Champions (Cody Royle)
Belonging: Unlock Your Potential with the Ancient Code of Togetherness (Owen Eastwood)
Fear Less (Dr. Pippa Grange)
Shift Your Mind (Brian Levenson)
Master of Change (Brad Stulberg)
Quiet Leadership: Winning hearts, minds and matches (Carlo Ancelotti)
The Twin Thieves: How Great Leaders Build Great Teams (Lucas Jadin)
The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World’s Greatest Teams (Sam Walker)
Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence (Gary Mack)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck)
Wooden: On Leadership (John Wooden)
The Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
Peak Performance: Elevate your game, Avoid burnout and Thrive with the new science of success (Steve Magness)
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Alex Hutchinson)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
The Mindful Athlete (George Mumford)
The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Daniel Coyle)
How Champions Think: In Sports and In Life (Bob Rotella)
How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle (Matt Fitzgerald)
Primal Leadership (Daniel Goleman)
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High (Kerry Patterson)
Legacy (James Kerr)
We Matter: Athletes & Activism (Etan Thomas)
The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure (Grant Cardone)
Tribal Leadership (Dave Logan)
Eating Disorder/Body IMAge Recommendations
How to Nourish Your Child through an Eating Disorder (Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling)
The Eating Disorder Trap (Robyn Goldberg)
8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder (Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb)
Man up to Eating Disorders (Andrew Walen)
Binge Eating Disorder (James E. Mitchell)
Overcoming Binge Eating (Christopher Fairburn)
Life Without Ed (Jenni Schaefer)
The Eating Disorder Sourcebook (Carolyn Costin)
Sick Enough (Jennifer L. Gaudiani)
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater (Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson)
Intuitive Eating (Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch)
Intuitive Eating Workbook (Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch)
Eating in the Light of the Moon (Anita Johnston)
Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating (Rachael Hartley)
Unapologetic Eating (Alissa Rumsey)
Landwhale (Jes Baker)
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Aubrey Gordon)
Reclaiming Body Trust (Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant)
Body Respect (Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor)
The Body is Not an Apology (Sonya Renee Taylor)
Fearing the Black Body (Sabrina Strings)
Health at Every Size (Lindo Bacon)
Anti-Diet (Christy Harrison)
Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time (Laura Khoudari)
The Wellness Trap (Christy Harrison)
Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science (Alan Levinovitz)
The Gospel of Wellness (Rina Raphael)
The Gluten Lie (Alan Veninovitz)
Decolonizing Wellness (Dalia Kinsey)
Appetites (Caroline Knapp)
My Sister’s Bones (Cathi Hanauer)
At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn’t good enough, you can’t bring yourself to bigger and better things.
Carli Lloyd