by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Mar 16, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity The Mental Game of Baseball The great Babe Ruth said: “You can’t hit the ball, if you don’t swing the bat.” His wisdom played out with the story of a preteen boy who did not believe in himself but later bounced back to win in...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Mar 11, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity A panicked dad The father of a 17-year-old son, Marty, who is a high school wrestler, called me in panic to say that his son’s performance on the mat and at school in his junior year is poor and that he refuses to wrestle. His...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Feb 25, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity Satiety is a perception The name, “Jack Sprat,” taken from a nursery rhyme was used for people of small stature in the 16th century. However, my tale has to do with me and the case story of a client in the 21st century....
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Feb 11, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity The restraints of time From the Dark Ages, the treatment of those mentally ill has progressed from chaining to a wall those afflicted with mental disturbances who never saw the light of day, and from the reports as late as the...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Feb 4, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Dr. Christine M. Silverstein Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity Taking the frost out of the bite During a very frosty winter’s day, a colleague of mine, who is an animal activist, heard the loud cry of a bird outside her home, and since it persisted for some...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Feb 4, 2025 | Ideal Performance
By Dr. Christine M. Silverstein Adapted from: Wrestling Through Adversity It was New Year’s Eve 2024, and my husband and I were quietly eating our last celebratory feast of the year at a restaurant across from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, after we had...
