by Erica Douglas | Jun 30, 2018 | BLOG, Confidence, Mindset
My senior year of high school, things shifted for me in my sport of track and field. I was no longer the girl chasing others. I was the girl with the target on my back. I’ll never forget one meet walking up to the starting line and two other girls, two of my...
by Erica Douglas | Apr 26, 2018 | BLOG, Confidence
Raise your hand if you have a story about mean girls. Sigh. I can raise both of my hands. Extra high. When I taught fourth grade, I was troubled by how soon this mean girl thing starts. I would conference with some of these girls and be like, “Why are you so mean?...
by Erica Douglas | Feb 18, 2018 | BLOG, Confidence, Mindset
She was stressed. Shoulders tense, brows furrowed. The smile and ever-present ease she brought to practice was missing. Every repetition, every drill was forced, scrutinized, never good enough. She was sobbing. Eyes scanning, hyper-aware of all around her. The control...
by Erica Douglas | Jan 10, 2018 | BLOG, Mindset
You’ve seen the saying on the back of T-shirts at sporting events. It’s probably on a poster in your locker room. Heck, you may have even retweeted a fancy graphic of the quote: “Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn’t work hard.” You wear it, you display it,...
by Erica Douglas | Oct 6, 2017 | BLOG, Coaching, Teenage Girls
“My daughter listens to you more than she does to me.” I hear this often from the mothers of the athletes I coach. Sometimes it’s a confession, sometimes it’s a recognition, other times it’s a question, “is that normal?” My response, every time is, “Of...
by Erica Douglas | Aug 29, 2017 | BLOG, Mindset
Confidence. I get asked how to build this in young women an awful lot. Can I be honest? I still struggle with confidence issues myself. Pushing my brown-eyed two-year-old along our usual trail for yet another please-fall-asleep summer evening walk, I had the blues....
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