The habits category posts are all about how to change your habits! Posts will contain information on behaviorism, applied behavior analysis techniques, the science behind how habits are developed or broken and more!
Reprioritize so That Self-Care is at the Top of your Task List Before our littles entered our lives, we had no one else’s immediate needs to consider but our own. We went to the bathroom in privacy, we popped out to a store no problem, and pondered over which movie we might watch on Saturday […]
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Practicing Meditation: Have you Tried it? Do you feel like you can’t sit still long enough for meditation or that you don’t have a good place or time to do it? Or maybe you’ve tried it and you’ve experienced too many buzzing and lightning-fast thoughts in your head that keep you from “relaxing?” Well, I
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Boost Your Mood: Natural Vs Artificial Do you ever feel like the way only way you manage to boost your mood is by doing something that isn’t the best for you like drinking alcohol ( a temporary and eventually-backfires-on-you-method), binge watching TV, or binge scrolling social media? There are gentler and healthier ways to elicit
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More Research Based Strategies… Welcome to part 2 of Strategies to change your habits! If you missed Part 1, here is the link to check that post out. This series does not have to go in order! So read in whatever order you’d like! I’m going to start out by introducing you to what I
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Research-Based Strategies: Intro I’m a behavior analyst (BCBA) and I practice applied behavior analysis. We target a behavior for change (decrease or increase) and then come up with a plan to change it. In that plan there are schedules of reinforcement (SOR). There are technical terms for these schedules but I’m not about to introduce
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Habit vs Discipline vs Motivation… There is a difference between habit, discipline, and motivation but they all have one thing in common. If you have one of them then you can engage in a behavior that you’ve aimed to accomplish. But only one of them is sturdy enough to maintain those aimed for behaviors. Habits.
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What is Healthy Eating? Do you feel nearly assaulted by all the advertisements for fast food, convenient diets, pre-made meals that you have to eat…like forever?… to keep the weight off. Do you feel completely lost when it comes to keeping track of what’s good for you and bad for you and all of the
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Regular Exercise: Hard to fit in but critical Dear readers, I love/resist my regular exercise routine. I love it because of what It does for my brain (a nice healthy dose of endorphins; the feel-good chemical in our brains) but I also love it because it helps me practice being present, reduces the risk of
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Stress Management: A How To I’m writing this post for both my readers and me. I say that because I have yet to feel like I’ve mastered how to handle stress consistently. But isn’t that the thing about stress? Isn’t it typically tumultuous by nature? Isn’t it a characteristic of stress that we feel like
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Do you ever pay close attention to how you talk to yourself? I bet if you did, and you said it loud it would sound harsher to your ears than it does in your mind. It’s easy to confuse self-critical thoughts with personal feedback if you’re not acknowledging them for what they really are: harsh
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