by Josephine Perry | Aug 18, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Sports psych profession, Sports Psychology
A psychological approach called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) is becoming increasingly popular in sport psychology. It is the approach I use – it can be a little hard to understand what the process is – so I saw this new paper from Laura Swettenham and Amy...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 20, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing
Burnout is horrible. It is described as happening when we experience of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion, caused by long-term involvement in situations that are emotionally demanding”. You’ll notice it if you are feeling exhausted, distance yourself or...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 20, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Bounce Back
We have had a very strange two years. While it might feel now all is getting back to normal and we are ‘living’ with Covid the repercussions rumble on. One of these repercussions feels like a large number of people struggling with Burnout. Burnout comes when we have...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 19, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Bounce Back, Sports psych profession, Sports Psychology
Psychology is the study of human behaviour. Sport psychology then helps us use our knowledge of behaviour in a sporting environment to reduce unhelpful behaviours, build positive ones and maximise success. That success might be focused on enjoyment, getting healthier,...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 19, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Exercise psychology
Years ago when I worked for a big health charity we commissioned some research from the London School of Economics to see how much exercise people were really doing each day. They found the average was 21 minutes a day. That was it. If you are reading this and have...
by Josephine Perry | Jan 10, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Media, Social media
I regularly work with teenage girls who have high levels of perfectionism (a trait where we have incredibly high standards and harsh self-criticism) and find this has become a double edged sword for them. On the one hand it means they set super high goals, they will...
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