The Family Playbook
How to Support Your Athlete Through the Transition Nobody Trains Them For
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The Family Playbook
How to Support Your Athlete Through the Transition Nobody Trains Them For
by D'Angelo Palladino
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About the book
The practical guide for parents, partners, siblings, and anyone who loves a former athlete.
You already know something is wrong. Maybe they came home from their last season and something shifted. Maybe they got quieter. Maybe they got louder — filling every day with noise and activity that does not seem to be building toward anything. Maybe they seem fine on the surface and you cannot point to anything specific — just a feeling.
What you are seeing is the most underserved transition in sports — and you are one of the most important people in determining whether they build through it or drift through it. The Family Playbook is the practical companion to Understanding the Crash: what to do, what to stop doing, and what your athlete needs from you at each stage.
Organized by the six 6 Identities types, by age group, by level of play, and by the ten things every family member needs to know, the Playbook gives you a conversation guide, boundary scripts, and the specific moves that support your athlete without overstepping.
Inside the book
Table of contents
- Introduction — You Already Know Something Is Wrong
- Part One — What Is Actually Happening
- Part Two — By Age Group: What Changes and What Does Not
- Part Three — By Level of Play
- Part Four — The Ten Things Every Family Member Needs to Know
- Part Five — The Conversation Guide
- Part Six — What the 6 Identities Inventory Tells You
Excerpt
From the opening pages
The transition is not a career change. It is a complete life reconstruction. And it requires a system that addresses all five areas — not just the one that is most visible from the outside. A job addresses one of the five systems. It does not address the identity collapse, the community loss, the neurochemical withdrawal, or the fundamental question of 'who am I if I am not an athlete?'
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