Elliot Moscow Coaching

12/16/2025

It was a wet one at the falls but it was great to be out on the trails again with the Amsterdam boys!

01/16/2024

Thank you, everyone for all the birthday wishes. I’ve had a lovely weekend made all the sweeter having been remembered by you all. 💕

10/25/2023

Hanging out on Smith Rock with Robbie Johnston.

07/16/2022

07/05/2022

Having a fantastic afternoon at the but also a little preoccupied because the season finale is calling!

02/06/2022

Hitting the trails with the guys

12/29/2021

Shoutout to for organising a vaccine clinic onsite and for offering free play and pizza for all who are getting vaccinated

08/04/2021

Movie night! headlining supporting

07/16/2021

Like life, the clouds can darken, add drama and beauty

07/07/2021

Whenever I’m in doubt…

06/20/2021

Often, the clearest way to see ourselves as parents is through the eyes of our children. 😅🥰 Happy Father’s Day everyone! x

06/03/2021

Mental Fitness

Exercising; walking, running, riding a bike, going to the gym, doing sports, we may not want to do it at times and it can feel hard and unrewarding but we have no doubts about the benefits it has on our physical and mental health, especially over time.

Doing a physical activity helps us to keep fit, strengthens our muscles, and gives us more energy. It also helps to clear our heads, produces powerful positive emotions, and generates feelings of accomplishment, confidence, and a sense of connection with ourselves and others.

If the positive effects of physical fitness are a given, how about mental fitness? Is it a practice you are familiar with or participate in? Do you know of or believe in the benefits of mental fitness?

We have a cultural tendency to see anything concerning the mind and the care of it to do with therapy and then more often than not as something negative or related to mental illness.

As a coach but also as a person who has greatly benefited from therapy, I am an advocate of it and look forward to a day when it is as normal to seek professional help and guidance to navigate emotional trauma and the pressures of everyday life as it is to go for a massage to release physical tension or see a Chiropractor, Osteopath or Physiotherapist to support physical injury recovery.

While, mental fitness is a central part of therapy it is not exclusive to it and is in itself a general term used to describe exercises, practices, and activities primarily performed to develop effective mental tools and mindsets to deal with the challenges we face in life and the way we think about them and to support and enhance our experience of happiness, connection, and fulfillment.

In Coaching and Cognitive Psychology there is a simple equation for how we live our lives; what we think/believe => how we feel => how we react/respond => how we behave. Our beliefs are the combined result of our lives, what we have been taught, what we have read, seen, and heard, and what we have experienced. The result is a mostly unconscious set of rules and a roadmap for navigating our lives steered by our rational minds.

As a result, we mostly identify who we are with how we think and what we believe. Mental fitness helps us to separate the two and is designed to build the muscles of the mind that often go underutilised or unused and opens up regions of the brain that offer different ways of thinking about ourselves and our circumstances and alternative approaches to problem-solving and to managing anxiety, stress and the thoughts that wake us up in the middle of the night.

In my next post, I’ll look at how centuries-old practices have been combined with more recent breakthroughs in Psychology and Neuroscience to develop mental fitness exercises and frameworks used by top sportspeople, athletes, corporations, businesses, entrepreneurs, and everyday people alike.

In the meantime, here is a question to ponder;

When I say meditation or mindfulness to you, what is your reaction, what are the thoughts that immediately come to mind?

Be honest with yourself, there is no judgment here, only space for getting better acquainted with the way we think and the impact it has on us.

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