Rebecca Symes's guest appearances

Rebecca Symes

BelievePerform Radio

The Sport Psych Show

Don’t Tell Me The Score

Sam Walker

Ethan Kross

Martin Turner

Mark Williams

Annie Vernon

Pippa Grange

Duncan Simpson

Ben Lyttleton

Sean Figgins

Frances Houghton

Mustafa Sarkar

Ade Adepitan

Jerry Lynch

Robert Morris

Anders Ericsson

OwlTail

I’m delighted to speak with sport psychologist Rebecca Symes in this episode. Rebecca works with elite and professional athletes to enhance performance and wellbeing. She is currently psychologist for GB women’s Hockey. Rebecca also runs her own consultancy, Sporting Success, which has seen her work with clients including Surrey County Cricket Club, Archery GB; England and Wales Cricket Board; and England Athletics. Her work with Archery GB has taken her to two Paralympics. She has also held roles at the FA across the men’s and women’s pathways. We speak about personal and athletic identity; the impact of language; identity foreclosure; psychological recovery; and career transitions.

<p>I’m delighted to speak with sport psychologist Rebecca Symes in this episode. Rebecca works with elite and professional athletes to enhance performance and wellbeing. She is currently psychologist for GB women’s Hockey. Rebecca also runs her own consultancy, Sporting Success, which has seen her work with clients including Surrey County Cricket Club, Archery GB; England and Wales Cricket Board; and England Athletics. Her work with Archery GB has taken her to two Paralympics. She has also held roles at the FA across the men’s and women’s pathways.</p> <p>We speak about personal and athletic identity; the impact of language; identity foreclosure; psychological recovery; and career transitions.</p>

#115 Rebecca Symes - Beyond Sport: The Importance of Multiple Identities

Losing your job is hard to stomach, but for athletes it can be particularly tough. More than half of former professional sportspeople have had concerns about their mental or emotional wellbeing since retiring, according to a 2018 BBC survey.  This week Simon sits down with sports psychologist Rebecca Symes to explore what makes up someone’s identity or ‘self’, and uncover the reasons why people- and sportspeople in particular- have emotional difficulties when their career finishes. Their identity is inevitably very bound up in their role as an athlete, so when that ends the question ‘who am I’ invariably rises. It’s a question relevant to each and every one of us, and there are lessons we can all take from the struggles many athletes go through.

Rebecca Symes: Identity

011: Podcast with Rebecca Symes Sport and Exercise Psychologist by BelievePerform

011: Podcast with Rebecca Symes Sport and Exercise Psychologist