Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC

Founder : Mile High Performance Consulting | Consultant for Coya Life and VisionX Sports, Former Vanderbilt Football Director | be intentional with your energy

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

"You don't have to be sick to get better." -- Trevor Moawad

We rarely question why elite athletes work with coaches, but somewhere along the way many coaches and leaders start believing support is only necessary when something is broken.

Support isn’t a sign that something is wrong with you. Often, it’s a sign that you’re serious about getting better for those you serve and lead.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Cortisol from exercising suppresses the subsequent cortisol response to a stressor.

Exercise before doing something stressful.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

@readswithravi Mack Brown said, "If your habits don't lead to your dreams, change your habits."

You fall back on your habits and what you consistently do.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on the power of daily habits:

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

Imagery ✅
Vision ✅
Confidence ✅
Identity ✅

Love this. What are your “mentally, I’m here” images??

[Vanderbilt Baseball @VandyBoys]

Mentally, we’re here. ⚾️❤️

[Vanderbilt Baseball @VandyBoys]

Mentally, we’re here. ⚾️❤️

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

It’s convention season with @visionxsports

✅ Visual
✅ Cognitive
✅ Mental Performance
Training all-in-one platform

https://t.co/UYABHBAU5U

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Show this video to your kids…Wow😳

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Great leaders don’t just give feedback, they invite it.

Sean McVay discusses why it's important to surround yourself with "truth-tellers" and how he fosters psychological safety for those he leads.

“It doesn’t mean you’re always saying nice things. It means you love and care about them enough to tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.”

Psychological safety isn’t avoiding hard truths, but rather creating a space where people can handle them.

📹: Gamechangers Podcast

[Susan David, Ph.D. @SusanDavid_PhD]

Having a tough conversation? If you're finding it hard to approach, you're not alone. Managing the emotional tone of a conversation is difficult. These questions can help.

[Brian Miles, CMPC @BrianCmiles]

Reflection Is The Way

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

What a great opportunity to bring the mental game to your gear.

🎯Self-talk
🎯Refocusing cue
🎯”Why” statement
🎯Team mission

[Vanderbilt Baseball @VandyBoys]

Appreciate @EvoShield coming through to let the boys customize their own gear! 🛡️

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

“You’re not playing against the opponent. You’re playing against the game and yourself.”
- Quote from a coach’s pregame speech

Deliberately framing and setting athlete’s focus on the process, you vs you, and the controllables 🧠💪

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

Want health and performance for life?

Then you better start getting yourself ready for the ⁦@national_senior⁩ games.

So inspired by my mom and her teammates, winning themselves a silver medal a few weeks ago! https://t.co/quNqBPFqDF

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

💡💡💡
Reflections from last weekend’s meditation retreat for high performance in sport with ⁦⁦@meditation_edge⁩

“We don’t learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience” https://t.co/WuYU07s3dC

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

Continuous learning and rethinking are part of my personal and professional values.
Had a chance to do both of these and more this past weekend…🧘‍♂️🧠 https://t.co/geUV96Kzm1

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

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[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

High performers, how do you prime your mind and body for your day ahead?? https://t.co/4ebMcZDmie

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

“He has no passion…”
“She doesn’t want it enough…”

It always makes me chuckle. Listening to radio phone-ins on sports shows. Presenters winding up their audience. Fans shouting into their phones venting their frustrating. They’re fun and funny, but they’re not really serious.

An elite level sports competitor…a professional…isn’t a pundit nor is a fan, so can’t afford to think like them. An elite level sports competitor…a professional…has to find their optimal way to compete, and so often that requires the removal of outcome and a powering down of passion.

Take Cooper Kupp in the video below…

“You have to not care what happens. You have to get past the wins and the losses. You have to not care what the stats are at the end of the day…”

Now, let’s be clear - you don’t ’have-to’ think in any specific way as a professional athlete. There are many great athletes who experience and utilise extreme ends of emotion. We can envisage Travis Kelce bellowing in the face of Andy Reid, or we can stretch our memories further back and think of Serena Williams screaming with frustration if she wasn’t winning.

Of course, emotion exists in sport.

But for many highly ambitious competitors, indeed many world class competitors, they have to find clever ways to take control of the expression of their in-game emotion. And for some (but not all) removing outcome and performance expectations is a useful philosophy to adopt.

To not care…
To remove performance expectations…
To turn down the volume of impassioned emotion…

Elite sport has never been and will never be a uni-dimensional endeavour. It’s complex and complicated and individual-specific…Cooper Kupp is one of very many elite level athletes who find it best to direct their competitive energy towards anything other than outcome, and who cannot afford to indulge in over-concern for performance.

Competing in sport always has been, and always will be, a slippery sweet-spot between effort and relaxation.

[Kaelene Curry, MA, LPC, CMPC @CoachKCurry]

Was chatting with a coach over the weekend and they brought up of my favorite Ken Ravizza-isms…

Are you that bad, you have to feel good to play well? …feeling good is over-rated