Monitoring for slip-ups and offering yourself compassion is especially critical in sustaining desired behavior change. Here are three essential components to help you self-monitor and maintain healthy habits long-term.

How to Automate Behavior Change

Struggling to stick to plans? If-Then plans are an extensively studied strategy from cognitive psychology that have been shown to increase the likelihood of goal attainment. So, WHAT are if-then plans and HOW do you implement them?

Are Our Beliefs Sabotaging Healthy Habits?

When we believe that our behaviors are unchangeable, we easily give up and say to ourselves, “I knew I could never do that.” So, let’s take a look at the silent messages that are holding you back - your limiting beliefs - and what to do about them.

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 27, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Is Bad Goal Setting Preventing You From Achieving Lasting Change?

Most people know from experience that knowledge and good intentions are, by themselves, insufficient to produce behavior change. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to successfully set goals…

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 20, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Why Habit Change is Hard

Mindfulness is defined as the awareness that arises when we pay attention in the present moment, on purpose, and non-judgmentally. To understand how mindfulness is involved in forming habits, let’s learn about two systems of the brain and how they can impact your behavior.

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 13, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Creating Healthy Habits

At the beginning of the year, we make commitments to stop unhealthy habits and start healthy ones. However, no matter how committed we are, we need help maintaining new routines. After just a few weeks, we may go back to old habits. WHY do we do this and WHAT can we do about it?

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 6, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 7: Put It All Together

The past six weeks we have explored how to make behavior changes that stick. Here’s an overview and a helpful example for you…

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 6: Self-Monitoring

Monitoring for slip-ups and offering yourself compassion is especially critical in sustaining desired behavior change. Here are three essential components to help you self-monitor and maintain healthy habits long-term.