I just found out that my upcoming book (it’ll be published by New Harbinger this time next year) will be called The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking any Habit. Although I wouldn’t have necessarily thought to describe it as a “no-willpower approach”, it is an accurate description.It’s not that I’m
You’re never going to hear me tell you how to discipline your kid, when to ask for a raise at work, or what you should eat for dinner.I couldn’t possibly know the answers to those questions for you. I barely know them for myself at times.What I can provide–which is enormously more helpful than giving
Last month I taught a class about ending unwanted habits, compulsions, and addictions based on the scientific the spiritual principles that freed me of my own binge eating disorder several years ago. The basic principles are the same ones I write about here each week, and the ones around which my upcoming book on ending
The statement “what were you thinking?!” is very different than the question “what were you thinking?”The statement “what were you thinking?!” says: you’re crazy, you’re wrong, you clearly were not thinking, you should have done things differently.The question “what were you thinking?” says: help me understand where you’re coming from…Read the rest on Born Happy…(And
I get a lot of questions about how we can teach the things I write about to young children. Raising children who see the truth about their nature, who are comfortable with emotion, and who know how their experience is created, is a big deal. It’s no exaggeration to say that this understanding could
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in America, affecting roughly 3% of the population. That’s probably an understatement, and that’s still millions of people. And although BED is the most prevalent diagnosed eating disorder, it is also the most misunderstood.BED has nothing to do with willpower or discipline. It’s not even about
A woman was recently telling me how emotions were not okay in the family in which she grew up. Feeling bad—and being honest about it—w as not an option.So she learned to pretend that she was feeling okay when she was not. She began to carry on as if everything were wonderful when she felt
I have a friend whose husband just walked out on her and her three young children. She is barely getting by financially, she has some mounting health issues due to the stress she’s experiencing, and she is caring for an elderly parent. Her circumstances are tough in a way that I can’t pretend to understand.We
How It Looked Then Fourteen years ago I found myself with a diagnosis: panic disorder.I was having up to 25 panic attacks a day. Many days, I spent more time in a state of acute anxiety than not.The thing about diagnoses is that they suggest a whole bunch of stuff that may or may not actually
This article is by Judy Sedgeman. Please visit her site to read the rest…it is so worth the click over there. I know you’re going to love it too. Lately I’ve talked with several clients who are sure that “fixing” something in their circumstances will bring them happiness.One is determined to find a job in a bigger
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