by Josephine Perry | Apr 24, 2022 | Book reviews
Two years ago I worked on an Audible podcast with Mara Yamauchi. We were supporting a presenter to train five people to run the 2020 London Marathon. Covid happened and the marathon got cancelled – but I loved the experience of working alongside Mara and picked up so...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 21, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
Rachel Ann Cullen’s first book covered the story of how she felt running saved her when she was struggling with mental health issues. It was a compelling read. In this book she ties in her internal insight around those issues with the stories of others who have also...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 5, 2022 | Book reviews
The genius of The Genius of Athletes is that it condenses tonnes of endurance sport psychology research into one place in a really handy toolkit to see what best practice we can take from the elites to put into our own sporting endeavours. The first five chapters...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 1, 2022 | Book reviews
I have never run an ultramarathon. I can very honestly say I will never run one either. But I have supported at many (my husband runs them) and I work with many ultrarunners on their mental preparation skills as a Sport Psychologist. It is a sport that is fascinating;...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 1, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
When I think of the sports that would be most likely to prompt a large dose of fear, Climbing is high (sorry!) up there; particularly the fear of falling or the fear I’d get myself into a position I couldn’t escape. I, like many others I suspect, watched Free Solo...
by Josephine Perry | Feb 25, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
When I began my training as a psychologist my supervisor suggested that all sports psychs should attend a counselling course. It was enlightening. On our MSc we had been taught a couple of interventions but on this course we were taught not to intervene, not to...
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