Bell Lap Mental Performance Coaching

As #bellletstalk day comes to a close, let’s remember to check in with ourselves, and each other tomorrow and each day after that too . @bell_letstalk

Excited to announce that I will be a speaker at Virtual Female Hockey Day presented by @hockey.alberta! See you on January 31st!

This tour I was both happy and simultaneously under more pressure than I’ve felt since the Olympics; maybe even more. It definitely took a toll on my body, but my family, friends and team took care of protecting my brain. This for me was the tour of sparkles because I felt that I could be myself and that happiness really IS fast! For me personally, it was also an exercise in trust trust in my plan, in my body, and in patience. It’s not that I didn’t have great races, or that I wasn’t proud of them! I turned myself inside out each and every race. And I’m so glad I did, because when my sharper race form came around I was already ready to dive into the pain cave, and I knew how to push myself.

GRATITUDE POST The past 756 (10) months have been a period of time with so. much. change to adapt to. I am grateful to all of the programs, teams, and individual athletes that have trusted me to provide mental performance support in a virtual space during this time. ... I am looking forward to the opportunities for connection that 2021 brings.

Now, more than ever, the CSPA commits, as a leadership team and trans-Canada organization, to embrace continued anti-racist action in this time of ongoing socia...l injustice and pain for our multicultural community. We condemn the continued acts of violence, discrimination, and the hatred that plague our sector and broader society, and pledge to challenge the systemic racism that pervades Canada and its allies, on and off the field. Educate. Support. Stand up. We must do the work and seek out organizations in our regions to support those who are afflicted, and help inform and transform our practices and sector. In the weeks and months ahead, we will be announcing further action that the CSPA will be taking to advance diversity and inclusion. Please join us in promoting and advancing equity and inclusion within and outside of sport.

Mental Performance Team

Everything Together.

WCSG off to an awesome start here in Swift Current! Go Team AB!!!!!

Journalist: "How'd you get so calm?" Nadal: "No, I was not calm. I was nervous." This is such an important lesson and why we SHOULDN'T tell athletes that they s...hould CONTROL all their emotions. they should recognise them. Acknowledge them. Make space for them and accept them. We should be telling athletes to focus on the things that they can control. What they can do. And you can start with what you do wth your body. Rafael Nadal has always done this well.

Real images of female athletes. https://www.cnn.com//alana-paterson-photography/index.html

Sunday Morning Views 33 Days until WCSG

Great day at the CSPA Alberta Regional Symposium! Feeing lucky to be a member of this community and to share my ideas about getting athletes excited to goal set.

It’s a good day for mental training #goteamAB

Looking forward to a summer full of mental performance support with @goteamab!! See you at the @2019wcsg in Swift Current

This is a picture of Head Coach Carla MacLeod and Assistant Captain Kassy Betinol after their gold medal win for Team Alberta at the Canada Winter Games. Kassy is holding a picture that she took with Carla in 2010 after her Olympic Gold Medal win in Vancouver. Moments like these are one of the reasons I love sport SO MUCH!#womeninsport #sistersinsweat

After 20 days in Sport Disneyland, it’s time to go home. Thank you @goteamab and the 2019 Canada Winter Games for the incredible experience

Team AB Mission Staff!! Great way to kick off Canada Winter Games #goteamAB #cwg2019

Had a wonderful conversation about Mental Performance Coaching with Parenting Power, and it is out now on the Parenting Power podcast!

I love this quote to change our perspective of the difficult times. As long as we have a growth mindset and courage to keep moving forward, the difficult times will often bring forth the truer answers to our questions.

Now that’s a Bell Lap! #goteamAB

Goals + Neuroscience + Branch Out =

Excited to announce that Bell Lap will be providing Mental Performance services for athletes at Winsport’s Performance Training Centre! . . #sportpsychology #mentalperformance #athletesupport #joblove

Stop scrolling and be where you are, just for three intentional breaths. . . . #sportpsychology #mindfulbreathing #beherenow

Advanced voting has started and it’s PACKED. This means that if you want to bring the Olympics to CALGARY in 2026 we need your vote!!! You do not need to vote in your ward, and you can vote if you have an address in Calgary. Please please get out and Vote YES to this amazing opportunity. If you’re on the fence, message me and let’s chat about it. Text 5 people right now and make sure they have a plan to get to a voting station on Nov 6, 7 or 13.

In case you needed a reminder to exhale today (like I did). Here it is

A few highlights from #AASP2018 in Toronto. I learned so much from incredible professionals in the sport psychology field, presented about my own experiences as an early career professional, and got to meet up with my friends in the CSPA. All in all a pretty cool trip.