Mental Toughness: 7 Habits
Dec 31, 2021
This article is taken from Inc. online. 7 Habits of People With Remarkable Mental Toughness by JEFF HADEN You don't have to be born mentally tough; mental toughness is a trait that can...
What To Do After Sport
Dec 31, 2021
It's More Than Just Finding A Job What athletes do after their sport career comes to an end is much more complicated than just finding a job and moving on. Many athletes struggle with the...
Getting Back in the Saddle
Oct 23, 2021
Starting Over The Olympics have come and gone, and soon there will be another set of Olympic Games. In many sports and for many athletes there's this huge push to make it to the Olympics, yet...
Dealing with Failure
Jul 7, 2021
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? At some point in an athlete's sport career, he or she will have to deal with failure (or, what I refer to as 'getting a result you...
Mindfulness for Sport
May 29, 2021
Here's an excerpt from a great article found in the Journal for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Young Writers’ Corner (YWC): Mindfulness in Applied Sport Psychology: Managing...
Fear
Aug 5, 2020
Lions, Tigers, and Bears This article is adapted from Peter Brown Hoffmeister's, Let them be eaten by bears: A fearless guide to taking our kids into the great outdoors , Perigee Books (2013)...
Sport Psychology? Are you nuts?
Jul 25, 2020
There's nothing wrong with me When I tell people what I do for a living, I get the following comment a lot. "You must get some pretty whacky athletes who come see you. They must have some...
When Doubt Sets In
Jun 14, 2020
Do one thing every day that scares you This is hard. Sport is hard. Training day after day to perform on stage is hard. Sometimes you do everything you can and you end up on the wrong side of...
Is There Life After Sport?
Dec 17, 2019
What next? Throughout the careers of competitive athletes, the focus is on maximizing competitive performance: how to make improvements in their technical, tactical, physical and mental games....
You Don't Have to Hide
Jun 17, 2019
Well-Being I was asked to be part of a Mental Health Focus Group for student-athletes. The goal of the group was to increase the awareness of mental health issues and mental well-being in the...