by Josephine Perry | Sep 8, 2025 | Books, Motivation, News, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
A career for life? I am a mum whose daughter has three more years at primary school. In our bit of west London the planning for senior schools starts early and trying to figure out where a child will thrive early on is hard. How can you possibly know what will help...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 23, 2025 | Book reviews, Books
My lovely friend (and Be Braver podcast co-host) Annie Emmerson told me to read this book. I am a big fan of Anya Hindmarsh’s bags (if you have been stared at by my backpack – it has eyes – then it is one of hers) but never reflected on who she might be as a...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 21, 2025 | Book reviews, Books
I love to start a book review with a great phrase from the book that sums up the book. With Steve Magness’ new book: Win the Inside Game I can’t because there are just too many. Almost every page in my copy has a line underlined or a star drawn to indicate a key piece...
by Josephine Perry | Jan 31, 2025 | Book reviews, Books, Uncategorized
This is a book on how to use research evidence to parent children from 10-18. As the mum of an 8 year old (and am dreading the teenage years) and who works with junior athletes aged 10 and over I really wanted to delve in and see what I could learn for myself and the...
by Josephine Perry | Nov 14, 2022 | Athlete Wellbeing, Book reviews, Books
When I began looking into Sport Psychology in 2013 there were not many books on it to investigate. Over the last nine years probably hundreds have been published. Is there room for one more? What can yet another one add? In the case of Perform and Thrive from Sarah...
by Josephine Perry | Nov 2, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
I adore the psychology of cycling. I ride everywhere I can, offer a discounted rate to female pro cyclists (my tiny contribution to a massive gender imbalance in pay in the sport), write cycling psychology features for Cycling Weekly and I truly enjoy helping cyclists...
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