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Last week I talked a little bit about exercise addiction which is also clinically referred to as activity anorexia which is also very similar to anorexia. Either of these can be triggered not [...]

Addiction and the brain Compulsive behaviors like compulsive shopping, pathological lying, shoplifting, gambling, overeating, over exercising or obsessions with sex can be trigger by genetic [...]

This is a two part blog series on exercise addiction. I’ve done a lot of work around people who deviate from exercise and now I am going to steer the conversation around people who are [...]

I love the NY Times! Every Sunday there  are thought provoking and consciousness raising pieces of information. Lately there has been at least one article that I’ve used as fodder for my [...]

A few days ago I came up with a ‘saying’: in life it seems difficult to have (real) fun and almost fun to live a difficult life and it was suggested that I write a blog about this [...]

Most players know the factors that adversely affect them before tournaments: you don’t want to be out in the sun too much, you want to make sure you get enough sleep but not too much, you [...]

It’s distracting to see or hear extraneous sights or sounds that have nothing to do with your game and it’s distracting to have a negative internal dialogue going on when you’re [...]

One of the top challenges for golfers and tennis players that has a HUGE negative impact on performance is negative self talk. Negative self talk is a form of internal distraction and includes [...]

I am gonna tell you in just a minute what will alleviate all of these mental barriers in your golf game, but first before you can develop the plan you need to develop good awareness around what [...]

In my work with golfers I find that they are very outcome oriented. I think in my last blog I made a statement something like ‘golfers are all or nothing people’. In my experience [...]