Category Archives: Body / Health / Movement

Looking at making changes in your body, health or movement?

7 Myths About Change

The main reason women sign-up to coaching or mentoring or attend events with Habits for Wellbeing is to make a change or shift in their life. To shift from problem, self-defeating or draining behaviours to empowering and self-fulfilling behaviours (i.e. habits for wellbeing). These shifts could be made in different areas of a persons’ life including – Career…

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What Are Your Habit Loops?

Before we talk about “habit loops”, let’s make sure we are on the same page around habits.   What Are Habits? Habits – “are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously” – according to Wikipedia “a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or…

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How Do You Respond to Expectations?

When you set about making a change in our life, it is important to understand how you respond to expectations. In her book, Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin discusses how people tend to fall in to four distinct groups when responding to expectations, which she named the Four Tendencies.   The Four Tendencies Rubin claims there are…

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The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.

The 3 C’s of Life The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change. Often in life we think that if the outside world would change then we could change. However, the biggest and most persistent blockages in life, come from…

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Starting to Untangle from Emotional Eating

Welcome to Day 5 of the Untangling Draining Habits challenge. Over 7 days, we are bringing awareness to different habits that cause undue stress or anxiety in our lives. At the end of the each post, we share with you one simple step you can take to start to breakup with the draining habit. So far we…

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5 Reasons to Let the Guilt Go and Start Taking Better Care of Yourself

Taking time out for yourself is often the first thing to go when life gets overwhelming or busy. Even when you are thriving, taking time out for yourself can be a challenge. Women who dare to start the adventure of looking after themselves often share with me how much guilt they feel. Comments like “I can’t…

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What is the Greatest Joy?

Just came across the quote and it really resonated with me, so I wanted to share. Do you agree? What is your greatest joy? “Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” ~ Lao Tzu If you are ready to reclaim your courage…

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