Time to Unlearn the Bullsh*t with Erin Ayala, PhD (Episode 197)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Female athletes of our generation have been told a lot of bullsh*t stories about what we’re supposed to look like; how much we’re supposed to weigh; what we’re supposed to eat (or more often not eat), and what we should or shouldn’t do in sports and training and life. We’ve lived through diet culture, sport diet culture, menopause diet culture. It is really hard to unlearn all those messages, but we owe it to ourselves to try. To liberate ourselves from the old bullsh*t that wasn’t even ours to begin with and rewrite our story in a way that is authentic and true. To help, we sat down with sport psychologist Dr. Erin Ayala, who shares how she helps women find self compassion and radical self acceptance for success and growth in midlife and beyond.

Erin Ayala, PhD, LP, CMPC is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) offering virtual mental health therapy for athletes aged 14 and above. She provides one-on-one performance coaching, CMPC mentorship, clinical supervision, and group workshops for teams and sport organizations. She supports athletes in injury recovery, managing performance anxiety, depression, pre-competition stress, confidence, and self-criticism. Located in Minnesota, she is licensed to work with athletes in 40 states. You can learn more about Dr. Ayala and her work at www.skadisportpsychology.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.0	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.5	I hope you all are well.
0:36.3	And speaking of well, the first thing I want to say for this week's show is to everyone suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. My heart is with you. I have ridden through and raced in so many of those amazing areas, particularly in Appalachia, and the devastation is hard to comprehend.
0:58.1	So I just wanted to start off by sending love and strength for the months ahead.
1:03.4	We are all thinking of you, and we are all pulling for you.
1:07.5	And speaking of strength and love and riding, I also wanted to say that it has been heartwarming to meet so many of you out on the roads as I've been out riding my fall gravel events here in the mid-Atlantic.
1:21.2	It always puts a little wind beneath my wings to talk to fans of the show in real life.
1:26.3	So thanks to everyone who has come up to me
1:28.7	and introduced themselves and shared some kind words, it means an awful lot.
1:34.5	Speaking of kind words as we keep this theme going, this week's guest is the master of them.
1:41.4	And she's the master of helping us find some for ourselves. I sat down with
1:46.8	sports psychologist and certified mental performance consultant, Dr. Aaron Ayala, to talk all about
1:53.6	the mental struggles of midlife athletes from body image to self-confidence to wrestling with
1:59.4	all the stories in our heads that we have
2:02.7	internalized over the years from diet culture and sport diet culture and now menopause diet
2:09.4	culture that really often aren't even true. And it's all really hard to unlearn, but we also really owe it to ourselves to liberate ourselves from all the old bullshit that was not ours to begin with and to rewrite our story in a way that is authentic and true.
2:30.2	And Aaron is on it. She shares in this show how she helps women find self-compassion and
2:37.3	radical self-acceptance for success and growth in midlife and beyond. And I loved this
2:44.0	conversation. Loved every minute of it. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. And you can
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