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Another Mother Runner

How to Banish Burnout + Negative Self-Talk

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Calling all athletes: Listen to this episode, especially if you’re training for a race! With co-hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, the guest, Erin Ayala, Ph.D., a sport psychologist and endurance athlete, talks about pushing through burnout and reframing negative self-talk. The trio talk about: -how to become friends with your inner critic; -creating your own mental toolkit; -using humor or sarcasm to tame mental monkeys; -the importance of staying in the moment during a race; and, -the three key ingredients in motivation + self-compassion. Before the guest joins at about 7:52, Liz talks about the start of another school year, and Sarah shares a little (tempo-run) win. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support. Insoles for all your active pursuits: Use code AMR15 for 15% discount at Currex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thanks to curex for its continued support, whether it's running, hiking, biking, court sports, golf, and even on your feet all day jobs.

0:07.0

Curix Insoles are engineered for unequal comfort, performance and injury prevention.

0:12.0

For 15% off, visit cureX.com and use code AMR 15. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bo and Shay. I'm joined by Liz Waterstrad.

0:36.7

Hello Liz.

0:38.0

Hi Sarah.

0:39.1

I miss seeing you in person.

0:41.5

That was a fun like 30 minutes there that we got to sit next to each other.

0:45.0

I do.

0:47.0

That was a good time.

0:51.0

Gosh, I really enjoyed that conversation.

0:52.0

I really appreciate you bringing your

0:54.3

full self to that event so thank you. Yes yes so you just laid a shocker on me that your kids go back to school tomorrow.

1:05.4

We're recording this on Wednesday, August 14th.

1:07.8

Like, what's up with starting school in the middle of August?

1:11.1

Can you please talk to our school board about that?

1:14.0

My gosh it's it's summertime people.

1:16.0

It's funny because when you told me early on when we were I was kind of you know

1:21.0

planning out episodes and I was like oh you know are you taking a summer

1:23.8

vacations and and you kind of were like oh yeah definitely you know from August on I'm back and I'm like

1:29.6

really don't most people travel in August? Like?

1:33.0

Yes, like everywhere else where it's summer until September.

1:38.0

Yeah, it's a little aggressive.

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