by michelle | Habits, Sustainble Behavior Change
I’ll get right to the point: If we want to create sustainable change in our (and our patients’, clients’, employees’) healthy eating, exercise, and self-care choices (and why wouldn’t we?), we need to move beyond fads, conventional thinking, and pop culture and take a...
by michelle | Lifestyle Behaviors, Mental Flexibility
Happy New Year!If you’re like most people, resolutions are on your mind, and maybe you’ve already made one. Can I ask you to just hold that thought for a moment? I have a few things to say on the subject that might just change your thinking.A few years ago, toward the...
by michelle | Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
I’ve been doing a lot of podcast interviews recently. A question I’ve been getting a lot more frequently than I could have imagined goes something like this: “Michelle, motivation is overrated, isn’t it?” As someone who has seen the concrete value of motivation,...
by michelle | Mental Flexibility, Mindset Reset, Motivation
I got an interesting email last week related to Halloween. It went something like this: “Michelle, my husband, and I have both read The Joy Choice. He has always struggled with sweets (you know the old story). But we have two kids, and we always buy our...
by michelle | Lifestyle Behaviors, Mental Flexibility, Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
It’s been interesting to me the extent to which The Joy Choice has brought new interest to my first, award-winning book about how to convert exercise from feeling like a chore to feeling like a gift, and in the process, cultivating high-quality, stable...