get your Mind Right

Simone Biles has started a dialog about mental health and athletics and that’s great. The magnitude of that discussion overshadows an interesting piece of the mental performance …

I am sure many of you reading are familiar with what I am talking about in this post, either intuitively, or formally. I can tell you …

Hi there, Dr. J, here. Because I work in sport and performance psychology and traditional therapy settings, and in response to Simone Biles pulling out of …

I gave a clinic about self-talk to a room full of Division I college athletes. I told them that if they really pay attention to it, …

According to Deci and Ryan’s Self Determination Theory (SDT), 3 basic psychological needs underlie the operations of a functional and motivated person. They are autonomy, competence, …

In my sport and performance pyschology practice, I ask athletes what they are grateful for. They often give me the “Thanksgiving prayer” list. They will say, …

Parents (myself included sometimes) and coaches often have the wrong idea about the roots of an athletes perfromance problems. I call it barking up the wrong …

I was listening to a podcast about the “dark side” of performance, and the crazy and often counter productive things people will do to win. It …

Activation is a term that means one’s level of physical and psychological arousal and excitement. Activation exists on a continuum from low (sleep) to high (overly …