Posts by Kip Rodgers
What is a Holistic Approach?
Maybe you are hearing this concept for the first time, but do not know what it means to take a holistic approach to coaching or therapy. To be honest, if a holistic approach is not in place, then your life coach or therapist is NOT doing their job. A holistic approach involves evaluating the mind,…
Read MoreStrength: Resources for Parents
Here is a list of some of my favorite resources you can utilize to parenting your athlete towards mental strength and emotional wellbeing. My actual book shelf is covered with more, so keep checking back as I will continue to post and offer you more. For now, check these out! Don’t forget to check out…
Read MoreStrength: Train Towards It
The climate of the counseling profession is changing. Many train and affirm towards dependence rather than strength towards wellbeing. To be honest, there are a plethora of horrible therapists out there who are doing more harm than good. Instead of training clients towards strength and better decision-making, many in the mental health field are fostering…
Read MoreDeceptions of the Eating Disorder Community
No doubt, eating disorders reveal significant mental health issues. Eating disorders severely impact athletes who face high performance responsibilities and the demands of academics. These disorders produce a complexity which requires athletes to faithfully grasp all the influences to overcome and return to a normal relationship with food. Eating Disorders often referred to as ‘ED’…
Read MoreControversy in Commencement
Hard to miss all the controversy about NFL kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech. Here is my take solely based on his speech (not comments he made before or after). Honestly, I find it disgusting to degrade a man who clearly loves his wife and upholds her in high regard. I can’t say that about other professional…
Read MoreParenting the ‘Yeah But’
When I witness discussions between parent and athlete and it goes into debate mode, the ‘yeah but’ is pulled out. Both parent and athlete interrupt each other with the ‘yeah but’. It is a common destructive pattern of communication. Parents need to be equipped for these ‘yeah but’ situations. It involves moving out of debate…
Read MoreNews or Editorial, Can You Tell?
Are you ready for the next 10 months? No matter where you turn to listen to ‘news’, can you really distinguish it from ‘editorial’? I just cannot bear to watch national news right now. The insanity of our politics and the editorial style of news these days sends my stomach into turmoil. It is clickbait…
Read MoreManaging Injury
Managing the impact of injury is one of the main reasons parents call my office. When injury is severe or season-ending, the challenges demand strong physical and mental responses for your child and for you the parent(s). Let us review vital protocols to address these typical injury challenges Keeping Motivation: This arguably may be the…
Read MoreFeelings are not Neutral
Recently while listening to several podcasts in my weekly consumption, I heard both therapists and pastors say, ‘feelings are not right or wrong, they just are’. What?? Uh, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This declaration coming from therapists I understand after all I am one. Therapists are trained to ask this hardly ever useful question, ‘How does that make…
Read MoreMental Health Issues are Brain Health Issues
Parents, I have a question for you. Do you observe these in your child or teenage athlete no matter how loving, caring, and consistently helpful you try to be? * Angry outbursts * Tantrums * Aggression * Defiance – rebellion * Never sitting still * Emotional meltdowns * Can’t pay attention * Blaming The source…
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