I learned many interesting ideas about MI at the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) conference I attended in September. Dr. Bill Miller, one of the founders of MI gave a keynote address on MI and Social Justice. In this talk he spoke of volition, as defined in www.dictionary.com, “…the act of willing, choosing, or […]
Finding Satisfaction with Food is a Metaphor for How We Live
Recently I read an article in Oprah’s Magazine, by Ann Lamotte, titled “Feeling Full” . (You can read the article here.) Lamotte writes about the home she grew up in, where her parents were smart, sophisticated, and accomplished, but cold, unemotional and hated each other. Her mother made gourmet meals, but the family table was […]
Accepting Our Patient’s Decisions About Changing
How can we accept our patient/client’s decisions not to change behavior when we think those changes are crucial? A very important idea in MI is that we must accept our client’s decisions about if, when and how they will change. This might include not making any changes, or not the ones we feel they must […]
How People Make Decisions about Change
How can we understand when patients or clients don’t change a behavior that we think is critical for them to change? For example, the person whose diabetes is out of control, the smoker who has emphysema, the person with high blood pressure who won’t take their medication. To understand this, I encourage you to think […]
Finding Perfection in Food: A Metaphor for our Anxieties
I’ve been reading a very interesting new book, “White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf” by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. The author has written about how the concept of a white flour bread, vs the older style whole wheat or dark bread was and is linked to social and political movements over the past 130 […]
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