The Performance Psychcast - Episode 30 - Wellbeing in Sport - Dr Richard Simpson
The Performance Psychcast
Metaphors for Mental Health and Wellbeing
How could we frame mental health, not necessarily like a fight or a ladder. I think sport can learn a lot from this kind of way of thinking about different ways of metaphorizing and coming up with metaphors for mental health and wellbeing. We might have some bad weeds and stuff on some day but given the right conditions to grow on another day that they might be in good state. So I think we need to move to more ideas like metaphors that encompass wellbeing and the nature of wellbeing across different contexts and cultures. And give us that understanding and those foundations in which we could then start to understand how people can thrive or flourish.
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