Be-Friending Your Body
And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.It took a long breath and replied, “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.”- Nayyirah Waheed While we all desire to be loved unconditionally, many of us have love-hate relationships...The Wisdom of Hope
Welcome to the wisdom of Hope. There’s something fresh and energizing about new beginnings and new years. However, after two years of COVID and everything that that’s entailed for you, you may be feeling a little less enthusiastic than...Habit Change: break those nasty habits once and for all! (part 5 of 5)
Habit change isn’t easy, but specific strategies can certainly make them easier. Research shows that when we make the desired-habit easier to do than not, we raise our rates for successful, long-term habit change dramatically. As obvious as this may sound however, this is not what people tend to do. In fact, most do the exact opposite!
Habit Change: break those nasty habits once and for all! (part 4 of 5)
The science on habit change tells us that that’s pretty much us: we’re the microorganisms, and our environment is the Petri dish. The above may sound more silly than insightful, but all too often, intelligent people try to thrive in nutrition-deficient Petri dishes. Just as failure to thrive in a Petri dish is less about the mircoorganism than the culture, the same is true for us. So, let’s refocus on you now…