Books & Podcasts
Books, podcasts and articles on mental health, mental wellbeing and performance psychology. Everything here has been read or listened to by players.
Reading List
Sports Psychology
Confidence, pressure and focus.
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BookThe Chimp Paradox
A mind management model splitting the brain into the Chimp, which reacts on emotion, and the Human, which reasons. Peters is a psychiatrist who worked with British Cycling.
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Sports Psychology Coaching
A podcast on confidence, performance anxiety, focus and pressure in sport. Episodes run 15 to 30 minutes.
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Mental Health
Anxiety, depression and recovery.
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BookReasons to Stay Alive
A memoir about the breakdown Haig had at 24 and living with depression since. Written in short chapters and lists rather than continuous prose.
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