Is the Health At Every Size, HAES® approach useful even for people at very high weights? When someone is immobilized by their weight, it of course has a huge impact on their life. Lynn McAfee is famous for replying to this question, “Just because there is a greater need for weight loss doesn’t make it […]
Humans Are Designed to Eat Every 3 to 4 Hours
Many of my clients and other people I meet tell me they don’t understand why they are “always hungry”. When I ask what they mean, they tell me they eat breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and then are hungry again before lunch, at 10:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. They are unhappy about this, and think there […]
Guest Post – Stop Selling: Motivate Clients to Buy!
The process of selling your product, service or expertise is similar to the process of ‘selling‘ a lifestyle behavior change. It is about motivating someone to buy your solution. Everyone in business has to sell. People must want to buy. Your role is to help them make an internal, emotional decision to choose to buy […]
The Convert
She had a well established private practice and was highly trained with a PhD in psychology and had completed psychoanalytic training. Yet, she was coming to me to be both tutored and supervised in Motivational Interviewing (MI). I was surprised. Here was a therapist who had a well developed theoretical orientation and, from her initial […]
Social Media and Getting the Word out About Motivational Interviewing
I’ve been working on getting my social media, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, up to date for my Motivational Interviewing training business. I must admit, I find it all a bit overwhelming! I do want to connect with people who are interested in MI, but I just really want to teach! I’ve found over the past […]
