Summit Mental Training, LLC

My mission is to work with middle school, high school, and college athletes who are looking to start mental training to improve their performance,  confidence, resilience, and methods of dealing with pressure.  Also, looking to work with athletes who may be having trouble handling competitive pressure.  I can also assist with goal setting, visualization, centered breathing, and the mental side of injury rehab.

 

My Story

As a child I received constant messages that I wasn't enough - not smart enough, not athletic enough, that I didn't work hard enough, that I would never amount to anything - just never good enough in all aspects.  That message really got embedded in my head and I struggled with measuring up for a good portion of my life.  I felt like I was on a perpetual hamster wheel - always trying to gain approval from others in my life.  For a long time, I felt that the answer was to just keep working, to work harder, and to keep trying to prove myself to others.  Regardless of how hard I worked and how much I did, I was still engaged in a constant battle to combat the megative messages.

 

School was my safe place - at school, I was smart enough and I received reassurance and praise from my teachers; at school, I was athletic enough and played four high school sports, excelled in all of them, received accolades and awards from my coaches and went on to play college volleyball.  Despite the successes that I had in school and in my professional teaching and coaching careers, I continued to struggle with being and feeling enough.  My personal moment of truth arrived when I met the love of my life and we decided to have children.

 

Six days after my first daughter was born, I woke to a massive panic attack, faced with the enormity of being a mom and wanting my daughters to have a better childhood that I had had.  I want both of my daughters to be raised with confidence and self assurance, and to know the value of themselves.  After my first daughter was born, it was then the real work of my transformation began.  This was when I began to realize that the only person who's approval and acceptance that I needed, was my own. 

 

In a world where young athletes are consistently bombarded with negative messages, I aim to be the voice that screams to them that they are enough and gives them the tools to have confidence in themselves, to feel empowered, to feel confident to rise to challenges, and to believe in themselves.