Gerry Hussey: I don't let my anxiety define me 

The sports psychologist and best-selling author follows a strict mind-body regimen that includes cold water immersion and meditation to quiet his critical internal voice

Gerry Hussey: "I still have days when I question whether I’m good enough, but I no longer allow those thoughts to take over. I cannot control what happens to me in life, but I can control how my mind responds to it. So, I don’t let my anxiety define me or hold me back. I work on letting it go.”  Pictures: Liam Murphy

CHANGING your thinking can transform your life, unlocking your potential to achieve personal and professional success. That’s the message that sports psychologist and performance coach Gerry Hussey hopes to spread at an event at the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs in Cork on June 23.

It’s a message the Galway native applies in his own life. “As a child, I had constant aches and pains, sweating and a racing heart,” he says. “I was brought to doctors to find out what was physically wrong with me, but nobody stopped to think that it might be anxiety.”