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Why You Aren’t Taking Action
Do you want to do something but just don’t feel motivated to do it? Join me on this episode and I’ll explain the reason why and what to do about it. You’ll learn: ✨Why you aren’t taking action ✨The Think, Feel, Do Cycle ✨Why you might be feeling a lot of resistance when you’re working towards a goal. ✨How to create the motivation you need to take the action you want. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ajoyfulyou/Why_You_Arent_Taking_Action_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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5 Simple Steps to a Healthier You
+ What do you do if you want to get healthy or lose some weight without dieting or dropping into diet mentality? In this episode, I share 5 steps or things you can do that will help you reach your health or weight goal in a sustainable, healthy way. Step one: Make a daily food plan. For those of you who listened to the Emotional Eating episode and the How to break up with any habit episode, you’ll know the importance of using the prefrontal cortex part of the brain to run the show. If you need a refresher course, go back and listen to those two episodes. Making a…
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Failing Forward
One of the biggest things that holds us back from reaching our goals is a fear of failure. Failure for a lot of us really is a big scary fear. So today I want to talk about failure – more specifically how it’s a necessary part of success. I also want to talk about how we can use the concept of failing forward to achieve our goals. To start out with, let’s examine the word FAILURE. Google defines failure as: the omission of expected or required action. This doesn’t seem like a big deal right. It’s just something that didn’t turn out the way we expected it to. This happens…
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Emotional Eating
Many of us use food to cope with both negative and positive emotions. There’s nothing wrong with this unless it is causing a problem for you. If emotional eating is causing a problem with your health, your weight, or your relationship with food, it may be worth examining more closely. In this episode, I’m sharing two tools you can use to combat emotional eating and break the habit for good. I talk about the importance of awareness and being aware of your eating habits and patterns without judgment shame, guilt, or hate. I talk about Seizing the Brain by using the power of your prefrontal cortex to plan what and…
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How to Get It All Done
If you often feel busy, overwhelmed, and that there’s never enough time to get everything done, this episode is for you. I share a simple structure tool to Getting It ALL Done and being more productive than you ever imagined was possible! When I follow this structure tool, I not only get a lot done, but I enjoy doing it. I don’t have the worry, anxiety, and overwhelm feelings that keep me up at night. Remember your brains job is to keep you alive. One way it does this is by helping you conserve energy. The brain is really good at selling us on the ideas we shouldn’t do it…
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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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Body Image with Susie Tucker
Listen in on this episode as special guest, Susie Tucker, shares her journey through body image issues, disordered eating, & perfectionism. Susie shares her mantra for change which is: “You have to love yourself here to get yourself there.”, as well as some other tools she implements daily to “flip the script” and heal her relationship with herself and her body such as: Recognize when we have tapes or stories playing in our head. These are not truths. Most of them are stories we have borrowed from others. Hear these stories. What are they saying? Flip the Script Susie also shares her gratitude practice with us, and how she used…
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Fear
Does fear hold you back from living your life to the fullest? Are there dreams you want to achieve but are scared to take the needed action? On this episode I dive in where these fears come from and how to tackle them. We discuss the two core fears that run our lives and how to face our fears head on! Showing up in your life may require some fear but with the tools I want to teach you today, you’ll be better equipped to handle any fear that comes your way. Tune in to learn more. Mentioned on this episode: Follow Rachael on Instagram – @ajoyfulyou Choosing Clarity:…
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Stop Buffering
Buffering is whatever activity we do to try to escape from, or cope from, or hide from what’s really going on in our lives and from what we’re feeling. It’s a distraction from having to deal with our emotions, especially the ones we don’t like feeling. As humans, we don’t like to feel uncomfortable. So when we experience an intense or a negative emotion that doesn’t feel good, it’s normal for us to want to escape it or to cushion the impact of it, to buffer it away, to protect ourselves. As humans we feel entitled to feel good and pleasure and sunshine and daisies all of the time. This…
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Health Redefined Part 3- Socially Fit
Today’s episode is all about relationships and being socially fit. We’ll discuss why it’s so important for our overall health. We talk about all sorts of relationships – our relationship with others, ourselves, our body, and with money. I’ll teach you why a relationship is just the way you think about another person. It’s not based on their behavior or thoughts or feelings about you. Tune in and let’s discover the exercises you need to become socially fit. http://traffic.libsyn.com/ajoyfulyou/Socially_Fit.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
