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What is a Life Coach?
What does a life coach do exactly? I’m getting this question a ton right now. A life coach is someone who can help you get perspective on your life and your mind. A life coach is NOT a substitute for a therapist who will treat mental disorders and diseases. A life coach takes healthy functioning people and helps them make their lives awesome. A life coach works with clients to understand and analyze what they are doing in their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral lives. Because a life coach has an outside view and a different perspective, they can spot what is working, as well as areas for change and improvement.…
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The Toddler in All of Us
We all have a TODDLER living inside our brain. There are two of the “main parts” of the brain: the Adult Brain and the Toddler Brain. Most of us our functioning with our Toddler Brain. Our Toddler Brain is all about functioning in the moment, and getting immediate gratification. It is reactive and just wants to do what feels good in the moment. It doesn’t like to wait for things or reason things out. It wants what it wants and it wants it NOW! Our Toddler Brain is really good at throwing really loud temper tantrums, and it can whine like it’s going out of style. It acts exactly like…
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Redefining Health Part 1: Intellectual Well-Being
We tend to think of HEALTH as being free from illness or injury, being trim and fit, and in good shape. I used to think the same, until just recently. In this episode I introduce my definition of health and the first of 4 areas we should work on to live a balanced life so we can truly change and begin showing up as our best selves. Today we begin with the area of Intellectual Well-being. Intellectual health is engaging in creative and mentally-stimulating activities. We can also group mental health in with this. We address creation verses consumption, And how to train the brain to start choosing what you…
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How to Change Your Life
If you don’t like the way things are, stop believing the stories you are telling yourself about them. We all have our “stories” about certain things. For example: I’m not enough. I’ll always be overweight. I’m awesome at showing up for my kids. No one likes me. I can’t do this. I’m the queen of baking. My kids are naughty. I’m such a loyal friend. My husband doesn’t love me. etc. Some stories move us forward, but often our stories are what’s holding us back and making us feel stuck. Our “stories” are simply a bunch of thoughts we think over and over until they become a belief. These…
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Weaknesses
I recently learned an amazing concept from my coach that has changed my life. She taught me that we all have strengths and weaknesses. We were born with them. They’re part of our genetics, our DNA, who we are. Our weaknesses are patterns in our personality type, our natural way of doing and thinking things. The things we came to earth prewired with. Weaknesses are different than bad habits. Habits are things like yelling at our kids, or overeating. Habits are not an engrained part of our DNA. They are something that we’ve learned along the way, and because we’ve learned these behaviors we can completely unlearn these behaviors. The…
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Food Journaling
Yesterday’s topic was on staying conscious and allowing your higher brain to dictate by planning in advance what you’re going to eat, instead of just eating what sounds good in the moment. Another way to stay conscious is to keep a food journal. I want you to pay attention to, and write down, every little thing that goes into your mouth. This includes anything you eat and anything you drink, and any bites, licks, and/or tastes you may have. This journal doesn’t need to be anything fancy. I keep mine in a cheap Steno pad. As you move forward on this program, having a record of everything you’re eating and…
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Consciousness
In order to lose weight, you will need to stay conscious. What I mean by that it that you will need to use the conscious higher brain as you unlearn the desire for overeating. Beware, your lower unconscious brain is going to want to be in charge. Lower Brain vs Higher Brain The lower brain uses less energy. We operate with this part of our brain 80% of the time. The lower brain contains everything that we have learned and repeated so many times that they’ve become a habit. We don’t even have to think about doing them, we just do them. For example, when you drive to the grocery…
