Here are the ways that I stay grounded and happy. One is have fun. So, happiness, and fun are correlated. So, I like to play video games, I like to watch sports, I like, to spend time with people that I really enjoy being around and so, that's number. One is, have fun play, introduce play into your life, if it's missing. Number two is exercise move my body in some way, shape or form. R4. Make sure that I'm sweating a little bit. Preferably five times a week and number three is engage. My mind. Do something that I find the interesting whether that's reading or a crossword puzzle or I like to play chess something that really stimulates the brain. So, these are ways that I stay grounded, stimulated and happy.

Psychological testing can be an option for any child who's experiencing significant emotional, or Behavioral or social dysfunction, and impairment. And the purpose of psychological testing is to assess the child's strengths and areas of growth and to provide both the child and the parents with resources, that will help the child improve functioning and reduce Mint. So, overall the age does not matter as much though. Its more common in school-aged children, and psychological testing, can provide insights, to help both the child and the parents improve the child's functioning.

This is a great question. What is REDS? So REDS stands for Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport. And it is exactly what it sounds like. It is essentially a chronic mismatch between the energy that you're taking in, the food that you're eating, and your expenditure, which is what you need for your resting metabolic rate plus the workouts that you're doing. So sometimes, this happens intentionally, meaning it can overlap with an eating disorder. But it can absolutely be unintentional as well. And there are lots of pretty serious symptoms and repercussions for REDS. And so it's people getting sick a lot. It's people getting injured a lot, a lot of bone stress injuries. It's menstrual irregularity in women or people assigned female at birth. There are actually-- it's some erectile dysfunction in people assigned male at birth. It's GI issues. It's decreased strength and ability to adapt to your training and, also, depression. And so REDS is serious. It is actually very prevalent in the athletic community. There was actually a narrative review that says that up to 58% of athletes may be underfueling. So this is a big issue, and I'm happy to answer as many questions as you want about REDS. The good news is that it is treatable and it is something that you can overcome. So please hit me up with as many questions about REDS as possible.

OK, good question. What should I do if I think I'm bipolar? A couple of things. First of all, I know that we all have lots of insight sometimes into some of our behaviors and our mannerisms. But it's also really important that we aren't diagnosing ourselves. So you can have a guess or a hypothesis, but what I think you should do is actually really go schedule an appointment with a qualified mental health professional or someone who can truly diagnose. And then come up with a treatment plan. And I will say that there are some amazing medications for bipolar disorder that can really help stabilize your mood. And then just getting lined up with a good mental health professional. So I guess that's my answer. We all have insights and hypotheses and also family history of mental health issues and also physical health issues. But it's really important to seek a diagnosis and treatment from a qualified provider. So that is my insight.

So in my practice as a sports psychologist, I found that in the athletes that I've worked with and in some of the research that I've become familiar with, cognitive training does indeed improve athletic performance. To provide one example, mindfulness training, in terms of how to regulate one's attention, has been shown to improve accuracy in sports such as archery or riflery or putting in golf or free throw shooting in basketball. So the type of training affects different facets of athletic performance. But as a whole, yes, cognitive training does appear to improve athletic performance. And what I will say is the athletes who are training their mental, who are working on some sort of cognitive training, tend to have an edge over the athletes who are not.

I'm working with somebody new in order to help them feel more comfortable or feel like they're able to have trust in the process. I'm a big believer in autonomy. So I really will give the people that I'm working with the autonomy to decide what they want to talk about. If they want to talk sports, we can talk sports. They want to Dive Right into their issues or challenges, we can Dive Right In if they want me to ask questions in the beginning. I'm happy to ask questions, really? Anything to create some Rapport between us some back and forth and the opportunity for us to start to build our relationship because that's really important in terms of establishing trust and comfort. So those are the things that I try to do in a first session to help build comfort and Trust