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Powerful Questions
The questions you ask yourself matter because they have the power to perpetuate your habits or to help you change them. This week on the podcast, we’re talking all about questions and how you can use certain questions to help you get unstuck and to create the results you want. Share this podcast episode on your social media or with a friend! WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER What role questions we ask ourselves play in our lives. Why questions are so important to changing your habits. The importance of becoming aware of what you think on a regular basis. Your brain and questions. The “dead-end” questions you should NOT be asking yourself,…
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Stop Beating Yourself Up
This is a topic I am passionate about. I make a lot of promises in this episode. Tune in as I share 3 ways you can go from hating yourself to loving yourself. -Watch your self-talk -100 things List -One-minute mirror exercise FEATURED ON THE SHOW Email Rachael at rachael@ajoyfulyou.com Instagram Website Demi Lovato I Love Me Self-Love Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 YouTube BFF Video Stephanie Nielsen Martin Luther King Quote Transcript: I’m Rachael Collins at the Joyful You Podcast; this is episode 63: Stop Beating Yourself Up! Welcome to The Joyful You Podcast. On this show I talk all about living a…
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How to make a Habit Stick!
The 3 R’s of Making a Habit Stick When it comes to creating a habit, there are 3 things you need: Reminder –This is a trigger, or a cue, such as flushing the toilet, or feeling an emotion, such as boredom Routine – This is the action associated with the cue. Flushing the toilet cues you to wash your hands, while feeling bored triggers go for a walk. Doing something over and over can make the action Reward – The reward associated with the action is what makes the habit stick. If you do something that causes enjoyment or relieves boredom, the release of dopamine (a feel-good chemical) in your brain will…
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Breaking Bad Habits
A habit it made up of 5 things: A cue A thought An urge Some kind of an action And a reward. We have the cue, meaning we see something, hear something, smell something, or someone says something, a cue can be lots of different things – And that cue triggers a thought. We think something about the cue. That thought creates an urge to do something, to take some kind of action. Which we usually do. We act on the urge. And then with the action comes some kind of a reward. Here’s an example: I’m in the laundry room folding clothes, when all of a sudden, I smell…
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Habits
On this episode of the Joyful You Podcast, we dig into how habits are created, and the best way to break or make a habit. WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER Why it is so difficult to change certain habits. The brain science behind creating new habits. The anatomy of a habit The best way to work with your brain to break an unwanted habit FEATURED ON THE SHOW Leave an iTunes Review Here Joyful Body Breakthrough Program Follow me on Instagram A Joyful You Website Favorite Habit Book https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ajoyfulyou/Habit_Podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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4 Phases of Change
The 4 Phases of Change As I’ve been working with clients, I’ve noticed that no matter what different goals each of my clients are working on, they all go through these 4 phases of change. It’s really helpful to know about these phases and which phase you’re currently in because it will help you get through each of them and get the result you want. The four phases are: 1. Our Current Normal 2. The Excited Phase 3. The Misery Phase 4. The new normal Phase number one is OUR CURRENT NORMAL. This is where we are before we set a goal or start working or a habit. We’re…
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How to Breakup With Any Habit
Do you have a habit you wish you could kick to the curb? Maybe it’s overeating. Maybe it’s your soda habit. Maybe you have a habit of overspending. Maybe your habit is wasting too much time watching television or scrolling your social media feed. On this episode of The Joyful You Podcast I teach you a PROVEN four-step process to breakup with ANY habit – no matter how attached you feel you are. This is the EXACT method I used to breakup with overeating and lose weight. Make a plan and write it down Follow that plan exactly Allow all urges to go off plan Repeat Listen in as I…
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Practicing Patience
Change can be challenging and it can be a slooooow process. It requires LOTS of patience and LOTS of grace Beating yourself up will not make the process go any faster. So, let’s not even bother going there. The mind likes to be efficient. It thinks it’s helping you out by running the same thoughts and patterns over and over again. But the GOLDEN TICKET to change is: PRACTICING PATIENCE Like learning to play an instrument well, lasting change requires you to practice over and over and over again. Without patience and grace, you are in a battle with your own mind, and when it’s you against you, you’re always…
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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…
