Naomi Osaka and Mental Health

06/03/21 • 32 min

MindFullSports: A Sports Psychology Podcast

While on vacation, there was a major shake up in the tennis world. In this episode we look at the incident of Naomi Osaka and talk about athlete mental health. Will this impact the sports psychology field? Could this be a turning point in sport culture's negative stigma on seeking mental performance and mental health help? Maybe we need to rethink how we view and treat athletes in this regard.

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MindFullSports: A Sports Psychology Podcast - Naomi Osaka and Mental Health

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In the world of sports, your performance is everything. So what happens? In the working reason, gentlemen, sports podcast. Welcome everybody to another episode of MindFullSports had some other stuff planned for today. But I wanted to take this and instead use the recent big upheaval from a tennis that we have seen with Naomi osako, first announcing that she wasn't going to talk to the press, and then announcing that she was withdrawing