Book Review: Your Highly Sensitive Child – Dr Aoife Durcan Ideas for Sporting Parents Sport can be an emotional rollercoaster for children, the thrill of scoring, the sting of missing, the pressure of being watched. Some youngsters however seem to experience all of this more intensely. They might cry after a mistake, withdraw after criticism, …
Why Emotional Control Matters in Youth Sport With Matt Young Every parent and coach wants to see their young child or athlete perform with confidence, enjoy their sport, and handle pressure well. Yet, as former professional footballer and anxiety coach Matt Young explains on the Demystifying Mental Toughness podcast, young people often struggle not because …
How Emotional Control Builds Resilience and Freedom in Sport Matt Young – Anxiety and Fear Coach Matt Young spent eight years as a professional footballer, sharing the pitch with England internationals, playing under international coaches, and experiencing the highs and lows of elite sport. Over the past 15+ years, he has deeply studied peak performance …
Conversations with Kids – Why Taking 3 Seconds Can Help Kids Stay Calm Under Pressure For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Question for …
Attribution Training: A Game-Changer for Athletes Under Pressure Breaking the Cycle of Choking Through Psychological Intervention Every athlete knows the devastating feeling: the moment when pressure transforms peak performance into catastrophic failure. This phenomenon, known as “choking,” affects even the most skilled competitors, causing them to perform well below their normal standards precisely when it …
Why the Best Athletes Take 3 Seconds to Reset Under Pressure (And How You Can Too) With Stuart Barnes When the pressure’s on and stakes are high, what separates athletes who thrive from those who crumble? According to cricket coach Stuart Barnes, it often comes down to just three seconds. In a recent episode of …
The 3-Second Reset: How Stuart Barnes Helps Cricketers Perform Under Pressure Stuart Barnes is a Professional Cricket Coach and Founder of SB Consulting Stuart Barnes is an experienced cricket coach with over two decades working across every level of the game from grassroots to international cricket. Currently the Bowling Coach at Warwickshire County Cricket Club, …
Conversations with Kids – Helping Young Athletes Thrive Under Pressure For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Question for your Kids “When the pressure …
Book Review: Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell Lessons for Professional Sport Coaches As a sports psychologist, I work with professional sport coaches who are constantly juggling competing demands: managing athletes, liaising with support staff, engaging with media, dealing with administration, and still trying to create the best possible training and performance environments. Many …
Thriving Under Pressure: Mental Toughness Lessons from Cricket Coaching With Stuart Barnes In elite sport, the margins between success and failure are razor thin. For cricketers, those margins are often shaped not just by technical skill but by mental toughness. In the latest episode of the Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast, I spoke with Stuart Barnes, …