.....The 63-year-old has just published Keeping Your Head in the Game, the first book of its kind, which peers into the confidential world of athletes’ therapy sessions – and offers insights into boosting or treating mental health which could help those of us who left sport behind in PE lessons at school.Using anonymized composite characters, his book allows you to follow 10 athletes through the course of their therapeutic journeys, the stories structured around the emotions we all experience: shame, anger, fear, jealousy and love......
.....During therapy sessions, the discussion often starts with how to improve performance. “But very quickly, we’re moving on to their personal lives, and combing through to see if there is anything that could be holding them back.
“If we’re not becoming the best possible versions of ourselves, there’s usually a good reason why and that might be an old piece of emotional trauma, a toxic relationship, falling out with a parent – families are minefields of difficult relationships that we all deal with.”.....
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