Let’s Talk Female Athlete Mental Wellbeing with the Authors of The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women’s Sports—from the Schoolyard to the Stadium

Books will be available for purchase and an author signing will follow the panel discussion.

Two experts in mental health are here to offer parents, coaches, and participants advice and support to help female athletes thrive in whatever sport they choose, at whatever level they compete. Katie Steele, LMFT, and Tiffany Brown, Ph.D., LMFT, are the authors of the newly released book The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women’s Sports—from the Schoolyard to the Stadium. Through first-hand accounts, research, and reporting, the book explores some of the biggest challenges that girls and women experience in pursuit of excellence in sports—including body image and eating disorders, depression and anxiety, mistreatment and abuse, and more. They’ll talk about where current sports systems go wrong and how we can correct course to ensure better experiences for girls and women at all stages of competition.

This conversation and book launch celebration will be introduced by Erin Strout, journalist and co-author of The Price She Pays, and moderated by Christine Yu, journalist and author of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes.