Coping with Injury
Any athlete that has experienced injury, the immediate goal is to recover and get back to their game. What happens if recovery is a slow process or you have to retire? Everything that you have worked for has now changed, how can you adapt?
“I knew from when I was about five years old that rugby was what I wanted to do. When it all ended – and it was a long-drawn out process – it was heartbreaking. There’s nothing you can do to stop it being absolutely devastating.”
Evelyn Hoggart
As a business and career coach I have helped many people who have come to pivotal points in their life such as health issues, redundancy, loss of business, leaving university or career change. People react in different ways, for some they will accept the situation coming to terms and making decisions quickly,’ hitting the ground and running with it’. Others experience trauma, stress and a sense of real loss that has an impact on their self-esteem, confidence and motivation. How to shift smoothly and quickly from this position to a more effective and rewarding place A great model that I use to introduce and explain such situations is the ‘change curve’. This model identifies that when an individual faces change they can experience a variety of internal psychological and emotional components. People will go through several stages, not always in any particular order or in any given time, eventually coming to a level of acceptance and adjustment. Today
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Rob Wood ex-Rugby Union Player
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