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Athletes and Mental Health with Sports Psychologist Riley Nickols


Athletes and mental health with sports psychologist Riley Nickols

Welcome to episode 101 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring sports psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS-C


Riley is the founder of Mind Body Endurance, and works with athletes on a wide range of mental health and sport performance issues. He also is an endurance athlete himself, as well as a running and USA Triathlon coach.


Riley and I explore the intersection between mental health, nutrition, and performance among athletes, often drawing from our own experiences as providers in private practice.


This episode is a bit of a grab-bag in terms of the topics that we cover relating to athletes and mental health, including: 


  • The impact of fear and anxiety on nutrition and performance

  • Examples of how to handle fear, anxiety, and other uncomfortable feelings

  • How life stress can contribute to underfueling, overtraining, and REDs

  • How to navigate poor body image moments and body weight fixation

  • How to cultivate mental resiliency in everyday and athletic situations 

  • Other mental / behavioral barriers to self-care

  • Prevalent myths about eating disorders

  • And more!


Riley and I provide practical steps that you can take to better support your mental health as a person first, and athlete second. I hope you find this episode helpful, and as always, I welcome any feedback, questions or comments. 


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Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations


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