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Slow It Down!
So much about our lives today is fast and immediate. We have high-speed internet, and Google where we can get immediate answers We can hop on social media and immediately check into people’s lives. We no longer have to wait for slow mail to deliver a letter. We order fast food and have dinner ready immediately Even our schedules have become fast-paced. We’re always hurrying and rushing from one errand or carpool or outing to the next. When moving in this fast-frenzied pace, we inevitably eat fast as well. Rushing through our meals so we can move onto the next thing, or even eating in the car on our way…
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Healthy Habits for Weight Loss
In this episode I talk about weight loss and my philosophy around it. (HINT: It’s probably not what you think). I discuss the spectrum I see of weight loss and where I fall on it. I also discuss how to get to a healthy weight and improve your relationship with food and your body. Let’s be friends on Instagram- @ajoyfulyou Website MENTIONED DURING EPISODE: Brooke Castillo Talk: Watchful unto Prayer Continually http://traffic.libsyn.com/ajoyfulyou/Healthy_Habits_for_Weight_Loss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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Lose the Weight for Life With This One Simple Tool
People are always surprised when they find out I once weighed 50lbs more than I do now. In order to do it, I had to stop making weight loss complicated. Instead of trying to change everything all at once, which was impossible and always ended up not being sustainable, I had to take baby steps. Here’s the secret to losing weight for good: If you want to lose ALL your weight for good, you have to change in small ways! Start each day and ask yourself: How can I do a little better today than yesterday? Then do it! That’s it! If we try to do things that we can’t…
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Stop Buffering
: Buffering is when we use external things to change how we feel emotionally. It can be anything that serves as a protective barrier from having to fully experience our lives and the sometimes intense emotions that accompany it. It’s something we do to keep from fully experiencing our lives, to hide from reality, to procrastinate, to not show up and face the music. We’re mostly buffer because we feel entitled to feel happiness and pleasure all of the time. We are constantly bombarded with suggestions of ways to do this: You should go eat something You should go buy something You should go watch something These are all FALSE PLEASURES…
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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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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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Self-Made Prison
Do you sometimes feel like you are is stuck in a prison? You try to free yourself but nothing seems to ever work. You’ve tried program after program, Read diet book after diet book, Self-help post after self-help post None of them work long-term or maybe not at all. You end up feeling more stuck. What if I told you there is a way out? What if I told the key to unlocking the prison cell is YOUR MINDSET. The mind is like a very powerful computer. The things you focus on are what your mind seeks to create for you. At some point and to no fault of your…
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What If?
What if happiness = thinness and not thinness = happiness? What if you stopped blaming your body for your unhappiness and decided to just be happy in spite of what your body looks like? What if you decided you loved your body enough to care for it the way it wants to be cared for, not the way the world and our culture teaches? What if you stopped tying your weight to your self-worth and just decide that you’re worthy just because you’re you? What if the way out of your weight struggle was not through changing your body, but through changing the way you think about your body? What…
