About this podcast
“Wrestling Through Adversity” is a podcast for parents, coaches, teachers, and caring adults who know today’s kids are grappling with far more than wins and losses on the field. Inspired by Dr. Christine Silverstein’s book, Wrestling Through Adversity: Empowering Children, Teens, & Young Adults to Win in Life , this show explores how young people can build real resilience, develop Mindful Toughness ®, and learn to win from within, in a world of school shootings, social media pressure, pandemics, and performance anxiety. Hosted by peak performance coach, behavioral health RN, hypnotherapist, and historian, Dr. Christine Silverstein, in each episode, takes you inside true stories from her decades of work with children, teens, college athletes, and families—along with powerful lessons from the history of psychiatry, youth sports, and mind–body medicine. You’ll hear how wrestlers, elite competitors, and everyday kids used self-hypnosis, guided imagery,
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