by Josephine Perry | Jun 21, 2021 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology, Sports psych profession
I needed to get a handle on a corporate contract recently and felt I was doing an awful job of it – as a psychologist my ‘wanting to help people and improve their wellbeing’ side overtook my ‘I won’t be much support to anyone if I can’t pay the mortgage’ side. A...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 21, 2021 | Athlete Wellbeing, Books, Performance Psychology
The youngest children I work with are around 10 but, I have a 4 year old daughter and a 3 year old godson so tend to hang out with lots of little ones. And I am very privileged that sometimes they will share their worries with me. But I can feel out of my depth as to...
by Josephine Perry | Apr 5, 2021 | Book reviews, Books, Motivation, Performance Psychology
So, hands up – I am biased. I am in this book! Just a little bit but Damian and I worked together before his epic Pennine Way record attempt in the summer of 2020 and he discusses the work we did in the book. But despite me marring the pages I still loved it. It is...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 24, 2021 | Bounce Back, Goal setting, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Support, Youth sport
We tend to make our memories around milestones. Birthdays, school terms, sporting events or competitions and holidays are those pillars around which our memories attach. Except this last year. Birthdays were celebrated without physical parties, school was often at...
by Josephine Perry | Jan 3, 2021 | Athlete Wellbeing, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Support
Whether we are going through a global pandemic (hello 2020-21), have a tough period in our lives with lots of stressors or we have clinical depression or anxiety something which can be helpful is a self-care box. I call it a boost box as I like to think these are not...
by Josephine Perry | Nov 22, 2020 | Book reviews, Books, Goal setting, Motivation, Performance Psychology
I work a lot with teenage track runners and while many of the girls are inspired by Autobiographies by athletes like Kelly Holmes, Jess Ennis or Chrissie Wellington I struggled to find some that teenage boys felt they could really relate to. So a quick shout out on...
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