Sometimes, it's hard not to see competitive athletes get down on themselves after experiencing failure. Whether that failure comes from struggling to improve at your sport, losing a state championship, or not getting scholarship offers from colleges you hoped to play for...
How you think and talk to yourself is linked to how you feel and act. This may sound obvious, but it should be striking, then, to realize how much you likely talk to yourself in a way that completely forgets this notion. That's your inner critic poisoning the narrative of your mind.
Albert Ellis is famous for conceiving irrational beliefs most, if not all, humans fall prey to during their lives. Let's examine some with the context of sports in mind; reframes will be provided below each irrational belief.
