New Weight Loss Blog Launched
Welcome to the new blog!
Hunger will subside if you let it
Guess it’s time for a new blog on my weight loss mission. After a great week in which I found myself already 13 pounds down, and only 37 to go to reach that magical 50 pound weight loss which will make me almost $1000 richer, I admittedly got a little lazy and a little over-confident. […]
The value of openness
As I enter my third week of 6 months in the healthy weight loss challenge at Healthy Wage dot com, I am right on track to reach my goal of 50 pounds lost by August. When I achieve that goal, I will recieve a check for $962, but this success does not come easy. It […]
Sharing my weight loss journey with the world
Hello from Dr. John F Murray. I am in my late 50s. I have been as fit as a world class athlete and I have been ridiculous in my life. In the past few years, I found myself going up and up in weight, mostly due to sitting as a professional (clinical and sports psychologist) […]
Testing the Post Cat
This is my post
How Athletes Can Stay Mentally Sharp During Quarantine
Special to JohnFMurray.com – April 5, 2020 – By John F Murray – The world is going to eventually recover from Covid-19 and sports are going to be a huge and welcome benefit of that recovery for the teams and athletes involved. If you are a top athlete it’s important to realize that this is […]
Coping with Covid-19 Mentally
Special to JohnFMurray.com – April 3, 2020 – By John F Murray – We live in challenging times. Everyone in the world is on lockdown and much more so than during the 1917/1918 Spanish Influenza when social media and even mass media were non-issues. You either got the killer flu and died or you did […]
John F Murray Wins the 8th Annual NFL World Series of Handicapping Using the Patented Mental Performance Index to Make Picks
December 31, 2019 Miami, FL – December 31, 2019 – America’s most quoted sports psychologist Dr. John F. Murray dubbed “The Freud of Football” by the Washington Post and “The Football Shrink” by the Arizona Republic and South Florida Sun Sentinel, is the 2019 champion of the World Series of Handicapping, posting a winning record […]
11 Secrets of Sports Psychologists from Mental Floss Magazine
By Suzanne Raga – September 1, 2017 – Sports psychologists help athletes of all kinds achieve optimal results on the court, field, or track. Whether they counsel individual athletes or work with teams, coaches, or managers, they focus on how mental and emotional factors influence athletic performance. But there’s more to their profession than teaching […]
Advice for Tennis Parents
Quick Tennis Psychology Tips by John F Murray, PhD ADVICE FOR TENNIS PARENTS One of the biggest issues in tennis and sports psychology is parents and how their behavior impacts junior player development and well-being. Coaches and other sports psychologists I talk with tell me that it is THE number one issue! Some parents go […]