by Josephine Perry | Jun 21, 2026 | News, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
I had a 2026 plan to stick to the monthly newsletter and to provide timely, helpful advice and content. I failed. ‘Write Feb Newsletter’ has been on my to do list for 6 months now. Maybe it’ll get ticked off in 2027! Why? Well life. I’m training for a half-ironman, I...
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,...
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