Competitive Behaviour in Children Competitive parents like us know the feeling: watching our child melt down after losing a game or needing to be first in every activity. Competition is part of life, from spelling bees to soccer games. Yet, it can become unhealthy quickly. Many of us don't realize this: early difficult experiences in a child's life often cause overly competitive behaviour. That strong need to win might be your child's way of coping with an emotional ache they

CBT Metaphors We examine seventeen metaphorical frameworks for understanding and working with anxiety in therapeutic contexts, with particular attention to their application within cognitive behavioural approaches. Each metaphor provides both conceptual understanding and practical guidance for supporting clients who struggle to articulate their internal experience of anxiety. Sport and exercise psychology practitioners, alongside colleagues in counselling and clinical psychol

How to overcome performance anxiety The relationship between anxiety and sport performance is far from straightforward. Research suggests that one key difference between elite athletes and others lies not in how much anxiety they experience, but rather in how they interpret it; elite athletes are more likely to read anxiety symptoms as excitement rather than threat[1]. Yet when physical arousal climbs beyond a certain threshold, it can disrupt an athlete's ability to compete