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Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

August 18, 2023 No Comments

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

The Evolution of a Mother’s Body

August 18, 2023 No Comments

My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

August 18, 2023 No Comments

A case for winter swimming.

Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.

Another Boring Collection of Words

August 18, 2023 No Comments

If you’ve managed to make it to this paragraph, we should move on with my non-scientific observations about the world and its current state of sheer monotony. The instant access to information has turned us into constant stimulus-seeking creatures.

Screen time vs outdoor time for teens

July 23, 2023 No Comments

How is tech affecting our teens? As a parent of young children, I struggle with the addiction of screen time for them and for myself!

Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

August 18, 2023 No Comments

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

The Evolution of a Mother’s Body

August 18, 2023 No Comments

My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

August 18, 2023 No Comments

A case for winter swimming.

Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.

Another Boring Collection of Words

August 18, 2023 No Comments

If you’ve managed to make it to this paragraph, we should move on with my non-scientific observations about the world and its current state of sheer monotony. The instant access to information has turned us into constant stimulus-seeking creatures.

Screen time vs outdoor time for teens

July 23, 2023 No Comments

How is tech affecting our teens? As a parent of young children, I struggle with the addiction of screen time for them and for myself!

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