"Allow yourself to feel what you feel, then look at what you're going to do." The most successful athletes will confront these obstacles by simultaneously (1) navigating and normalizing the present failure and (2) setting themselves up for future success. How you respond to failure will dictate both momentary and long-term health as well as athletic performance. Some athletes can stabilize themselves and pull through distress, while others might spiral down into negative thinking, including acute anxiety or depressive feelings, Stephen notes. Your mental health-and even your career-might depend on it. So whether you happen to score points on a field for a living or can otherwise sympathize with those forlorn Eagles, get out your mental playbook and take some notes. Feel it and then look at what you're going to do.” “Allow yourself to feel what you feel-the anxiety, the anger (with yourself, with other people)-this doesn’t have to be rational. Stephen, Ph.D., a New England peak performance coach and licensed psychologist. “You're going to be flooded with these really uncomfortable, distressing feelings,” says Lisa M. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play And yet we’ve all been there-as players, coaches, overly emotional parents, and fans. Obviously, no one wants to lose a game (or think one did) on an error. So, yeah, it’s been a tough couple weekends for athletes. Jeffery lay on the field for a solid half-minute after the play and returned to the sideline, where a red-eyed Doug Pederson immediately hugged him. Whether Parkey blew the game, he certainly felt like he did, a feeling that was cosmically passed back to the Eagles last Sunday when Alshon Jeffery, one of the league’s top receivers, allowed a pass by Nick Foles to deflect off his hands and into those of corner Marshon Lattimore: Game over. After recently missing what would have been the Bears' game-winning 43-yard field goal, kicker Cody Parkey, 26, left the Chicago stadium beneath a shower of boos, then death threats, and now memes-all this despite the fact that the field goal was actually tipped on the line and Parkey himself scored more points against the Eagles that night than the entire Bears offense (9 vs.
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