Authentic Conversations: Vulnerability and Bravery
This was an amazing conversation with @zoemcbride.nz , a 5 x Lightweight World Champion in rowing. Thank you @zoemcbride.nz for your vulnerability and bravery.
Authentic Conversations: Mental Health and Sports
Had an amazing conversation with @tatiana.faith about our personal journeys with mental health and sports!Let’s keep this conversation going !
#eypperformance #embraceyourpace
What’s new with Karelle?
It has been a little time since we last heard from one of our Haute Volee members, Karelle Edwards. In this blog, Karelle updates us on her life, her mental health, and what’s next.
Authentic Conversations: Ending our road to the Tokyo Olympics
Karelle Edwards, a 5x Team Canada hurdler, licensed mental health counselor, and mental performance consultant, and co-owner of Embrace Your Pace, shares her journey in sports. Karelle walks us through how she advocates for change in sports, especially around abusive coaching relationships. She shares her experience with a negative coaching relationship, giving us coaching red flags and tips on how we can bring awareness to inappropriate behaviors like emotional abuse, harassment, and assault. Karelle shares how, despite all the challenges she had to overcome in her athletic journey, she has learned to trust herself. Her journey shows us that performance and mental health can coexist, and her perspective as a professional athlete who is also a mental health professional is so valuable for all female athletes to hear. “Don’t be afraid to speak up. You are unique, and you have a unique journey. Follow your own path. You deserve to be there. Trust yourself and celebrate yourself.” – Karelle Edwards
Mindful Sport Performance Podcast: Prioritizing Mental Health
In this episode, Karelle Edwards, a professional 100m hurdler for Oiselle and a five-time Team Canada member, joins the conversation. Tim begins with a heartbeat meditation. Then, Karelle talks with Keith and Tim about her experiences with mental training, how her interest in studying mental health and performance evolved, and her recent decision to prioritize her mental health over the Tokyo Olympics.
Athletes and Mental Health
Haute Volée hurdler and mental health therapist Karelle Edwards confronts the disconnect between “toughen up” style athlete coaching and mental health maximization.
Rise Resolute Podcast: Using adversity to become a better version of yourself
Connect and Rise with Karelle Edwards, Canadian 100 meter Hurdler who has set her eyes on the Road to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Games. Karelle’s authenticity will inspire you as she discusses how adversity can take us to destinations we couldn’t have gone otherwise. She also shares how her father’s belief in her (that was stronger than her own at the time) propelled her forward to continue training and pushing herself towards her goals. Most poignantly, she explains how looking back though there are things that her current self may have done differently, she has a firm belief in the value of adversity. Her struggles prepared her for where she was going. How can you embrace adversity and use it as inspiration? Don’t miss this episode!