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Motivation can be defined as the direction and intensity of one’s efforts. Direction refers to why a person is involved in certain situations and why a person avoids other situations. Intensity [...]

I am now working with a lot of Olympic and professional athletes and I am very passionate about wanting to help support their performance endeavors. Although I am enamored by athletes of [...]

Relaxation is important for athletes in their sport and in everyday life to help create a calm feeling and sense of control.  Its ‘time-out’ from worry.  Athletes can use specific relaxation [...]

Neurotic used to be a psychological diagnosis however  now researchers for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) have taken it out and have decided that it is a common term for more [...]

Practice is meant for practicing physical & mental skills: learning new skills, developing other skills, making mistakes, improving fitness, etc. If you are practicing correctly then you will [...]

I’ve developed a new tactic for helping my athletes become more aware of cognitive and somatic ‘feelings’. It is called the ‘timeout’. What is it The timeout is a [...]

Imagery Sensory Checklist This is an exercise designed to help you begin to integrate your senses into your imagery. As you create each of the following images in your mind, rate your ability to [...]

Psychoneuromuscular theory: when an athlete practices using imagery, the athlete imagines movements without performing them, although the brain interprets this as if the athlete were performing [...]

The work I do with athletes is not always rocket science. It’s amazing how difficult it is to get out of your own way or to see things differently or from another perspective and sometimes [...]

Take a second to think about why you listen to music. Why do you? For most of you it’s probably because music is fun and happy but there are other reasons people listen to music. Music [...]