Keeping Your Head in the Game

Untold Stories of the Highs and Lows of a Life in Sport

Keeping Your Head in the Game
Gary Bloom
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 368pg
25 Feb 2021 UK
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9780241451311
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Elite athletes play out their lives in the most public of arenas. Everything they do is analysed in real time and then picked apart in the pub and in the press afterwards. ' Why did they miss that penalty? ' , ' What made them fall at the first jump? ' , ' That press conference was a bit weird. ' We can all speculate, but what' s really going on? In Keeping Your Head in the Game we peer into this highly confidential world. We follow the journeys of ten athletes in their therapy sessions with sports psychotherapist Gary Bloom, from a rugby player arrested for a drunken brawl, through a homesick cricketer on tour, to a snooker player struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. Structured around the emotions we all experience on a daily basis - shame, anger, fear, jealousy and envy, love -chapter by chapter, the inner traumas that have an impact on the performance of these sports personalities are revealed, explained and resolved. Seeing how they overcome their demons is a powerful way of tackling your own and, as Gary says, happier players play better - in sport and in life.
Love this book. It' s about time someone wrote about the emotional life of athletes and Gary really does this justice. These are some cracking tales and it' s a great read -- Nigel Owens MBE, rugby union referee This is a book for anyone interested in competitive sport, what people have to do to get to the top and what that can do to the human psyche -- Catherine Jackson, journalist and former editor of Therapy Today Absolutely fascinating . . . a genuine MUST for anyone interested in the human side of sport . . . very readable and accessible . . . It is comforting to realise that everyone - from global superstar to young aspirant - suffers from profound uncertainty of one sort or another . . . This book will promote greater kindness and understanding . . . Heartily recommended for any ' thinking' sports-lover -- Peter Drury, football commentator It' s amazing how football clubs invest in repairing the bodies of their players whilst largely ignoring their minds. Elite athletes are just as fragile as the rest of us. Happily change is on the way and this must-read book will only accelerate that -- Jon Champion, football commentator
Gary Bloom is a leading clinical sports psychotherapist who works with elite athletes. He also hosts the award-winning talkSPORT radio show On the Sporting Couch, where he speaks with athletes about difficulties they have had during their careers, and has commentated for over 20 years - notably on Channel 4' s iconic Football Italia. Registered with both the BACP and the UKCP, psychotherapy' s governing bodies in the UK, he is one of the only sports psychotherapists working within a football league club. This is his first book.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241451311
Published: 25 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Life
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 368

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