by Josephine Perry | Jun 19, 2026 | ADHD in Sport, Athlete Wellbeing, Sports Psychology
What helps me perform at my best ADHD is not a lack of effort, discipline, or commitment. It affects attention, memory, emotional regulation, processing speed, organization, and motivation. When coaching works well for me, I can be highly driven, creative, resilient...
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 | 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 | May 12, 2022 | Sports psych profession, Sports Psychology
Obviously athletes. But only athletes? There are far more sport psychology students graduating from MSc courses than are needed to work with athletes – but the skills we can teach and the approaches we use work with a huge group of people – so here are 11 other...
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 23, 2022 | Books, News, Sports Psychology
The last two years have been ummm… interesting. For some they have been really tough. For others just different. A few thrived despite all the ambiguity. Most of us didn’t. I loved the phrase being used a lot at the start of the pandemic of ‘we might all be in...
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