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.

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 5: If-Then Plans

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

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 4: Limiting Beliefs

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.

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 2: Mindfulness

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.

Creating Healthy Habits - Part 1: A New Approach

Many of us are dealing with unhealthy habits that we started during the pandemic. Even though we know what we need to do to make changes, we are finding it challenging to commit to healthy habits. We continue to "stress eat." WHY do we do this and WHAT can we do about it?

Hey, Did You Hear That…?

"Gossip separates the best of friends." Most of us associate gossip with a malicious intention to enjoy relaying negative information about someone (Beersma & Van Kleep, 2012). However, in scientific literature, gossip is often defined differently.. What should we believe and should we control our urge to “gossip”?

Having Trouble Getting Back Into Your Exercise Routine?

We know that maintaining a regular exercise program is critical to both our mental and physical health. However, many of us have difficulty living up to our goals, even under the best circumstances. Even now, with gyms and other recreational activities resuming, many of us are still having difficulty getting back into our physical activity routine. Here are some tips…

COVID-19, Exercise, RoutineSaundra SchrockJune 1, 2021routines, exercise, COVID-19, mental health