Joanne Smith helps runners rebuild confidence after a trail accident. She suggests identifying an activity where you feel completely confident, examining what creates that feeling, then deliberately transferring those same cues to trail running to counteract fear and hesitation.
So if you can think of something that you are really, really confident at and really good at, and then think, what am I doing differently when I'm doing that, that I'm not doing when I'm doing the running that you want to get better at? Like you, like you say, you might have had an accident and lost some of your nerve, and you might be running a movie that's a horror movie that you're watching back over and over again of yourself face planting or hitting your head on a rock or whatever it might be. So pick out some of the, the things that you are, of the particular thing that you're doing, that you're brilliant at, that you've got no insecurities over, and see whether you can transfer some of those over into how you'll adjust yourself when you're trail running.
