Mental Health, Isolation and the Coaching Environment
This is Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme is Action.
We talk a lot about athlete welfare. We talk about performance, development, and doing right by the people we coach. What we talk about far less is the mental health of the coach.
Coaching can be isolating. More coaches than ever are working online, operating alone, without a team around them. When you work entirely alone you can quietly lose access to things that matter — daily contact with peers, honest feedback, someone who notices when you’re not quite yourself.
I wrote this piece for British Powerlifting on the one action worth taking this week. Read it in full on their website below.