The Zone

Making Mental Health a Foundation of Athlete Performance.

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Happy to be able to support college programs in providing access to care for their athletes!

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In The Zone on mental wellness 💪

@FordhamRams and over 160 more colleges and universities across the country have begun using The Zone to help paid student-athletes with mental health resources.

#MentalHealthMonth | https://t.co/CvNXminSYx

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We do more than just content in app and data for coaches. We want to reach all athletes, coaches, and staff beyond our platform.

In March, we hosted a men's mental health webinar

Click the link below to watch and share.

https://t.co/UxEDUZq3vf

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Our clinician directory includes:

✓ Licensed psychologists specializing in trauma & global mental health
✓ Registered dietitians in functional medicine
✓ Mindfulness specialists
✓ Psychiatrists

Real experts. Real solutions. For real athletes.

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You gotta love the Bruins 💙

“They want me to see myself the way they all see me.” - @laurenbetts12

#WFinalFour x @UCLAWBB

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Lauren Betts on the day she sought out help for her depression: “I don’t think I even realized I was sinking. The whole time I thought I was treading water, I was actually slipping away. Picture yourself underwater, facing up toward the sky and just…. fading. Fading, until you can no longer see the surface. Fading, until you finally reach the darkest part of the ocean. That was me.

It happened so randomly. About two years ago, after months of feeling kind of numb, I woke up one morning feeling everything. Every anxious thought I’d ever had about myself hit me all at once. My anxiety was at an all-time high. My mind said, I don’t want to do this anymore.

‘This,’ meaning life.

I had probably been depressed for six months. It all started at the end of my freshman year at Stanford. Then when I transferred to UCLA, there was hype around my name, and I just never dealt with my emotions. Gradually, it became really bad, until I started drowning.

That morning, I knew the headspace that I was in was too dangerous to ignore. I’d never felt so scared in my entire life. I don’t want to do this anymore…. That horrible thought kept popping up in my mind. I couldn’t go back to my day-to-day and just pretend like nothing happened. I felt like there was no other option but to go to a hospital. I was just like, There’s no other way out. Either I’m going there, or I’m doomed. I was desperate. I called my trainer at the time, and they came and picked me up.

That afternoon, I checked myself into the UCLA hospital. I remember there weren’t even enough rooms because there were so many people in the psych ward who also desperately needed help. So, I was put in the hallway, with people screaming and shouting all night. I didn’t get any sleep. I just laid on that gurney wondering how my teammates were doing. The whole experience was really hard. I was a hot mess. Doctors checked in on me throughout the day. People came to visit, and I begged them to take me home. I was not happy. The food is terrible. You don’t have your phone, you don’t have anything — you’re just laying there, alone with your thoughts. If you’re in a bad headspace and you really need professional help, please go and take care of yourself because it is the BEST option over doing something else. But I never want to go back.

More than anything, though, I just never want to feel that low again. I want to be HERE, experiencing life, in all its beauty and all its messiness, for a really really long time. But I know now how thin that line is between having your whole future ahead of you, and not.

All it takes is one really bad morning.” https://t.co/RlafGXT0H4

@laurenbetts12 | @UCLAWBB | @MarchMadnessWBB | @bigten

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Talk to us about a partnership today

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We've served 5,000+ student-athletes. Here's what they told us:

✓ Significant mood improvement
✓ Reduced stress
✓ Better mental clarity

All within 15 sessions.

This is what happens when athletes get the support they deserve.

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To every wellness director and coach reading this: you're not a therapist. You don't have to be.

The Zone gives you the tools, the clinicians, and the data to support your athletes without burning yourself out.

Let's talk about what's possible.

https://t.co/LmB9GdEVgA

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Tonight at 7pm EST, tune in on a conversation about men's mental health in athletics.

Athletes, coaches, all are welcome! Register below
https://t.co/puVmjfCUbt

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessWBB]

.@dawnstaley talks about overcoming body shaming as a player and how much she instills body positivity into her players and other women’s athletes.

#MarchMadness x @GamecockWBB

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https://t.co/WJy18KNYTu

30% of student-athletes struggle with depression. Dante Moore's letter to Oregon's governor shows why: when mental health support is accessible, athletes don't just perform better—they lead better. His story is exactly why we built The Zone

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https://t.co/S5iEmkGtjE

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

“I used to think it was cool to get away with not sleeping.

That’s the dumbest sh*t I’ve ever heard.

When your job is to deal with people, you need to establish health habits to sustain [yourself] when there’s a lot of external stressors.”

- Sean McVay