What Pressure Does to Us and the Support We Need to Perform

revvel CEO Jenn Heil sits down with Dr. Penny Werthner, Canadian Olympian and renown sports psychologist of 30+ years to explore how the mental skills that build Olympic champions can help women in their 40s and 50s ("the sandwich generation") perform in everyday life. Penny pioneered the applied use of biofeedback and neurofeedback in Canadian sport. She worked with Jenn through her final Olympic cycle, helping her train the mental and physiological control required to perform under immense pressure.Key topics:Biofeedback and neurofeedback: training relaxation, focus, and recovery using real-time data on how your nervous system responds under pressureThe difference between pressure (wanting an outcome you can't control) and stress (your body's physiological response) — and why women's pressure rarely has an endpointRecovery as a learnable skill that happens in small moments throughout the dayWhy "mental toughness" is misunderstood, and what real resiliency looks like: honest self-assessment and permission to stopGender differences in athlete-coach communicationPenny's starting prescription: move your body, and bring someone with youThe support behind great performance should not be reserved for sport.revvel gives women access to world-class experts — the kind of team most people never get. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.