Is Bad Goal Setting Preventing You From Achieving Lasting Change?

Most people know from experience that knowledge and good intentions are, by themselves, insufficient to produce behavior change. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to successfully set goals…

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 20, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Why Habit Change is Hard

Mindfulness is defined as the awareness that arises when we pay attention in the present moment, on purpose, and non-judgmentally. To understand how mindfulness is involved in forming habits, let’s learn about two systems of the brain and how they can impact your behavior.

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 13, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Creating Healthy Habits

At the beginning of the year, we make commitments to stop unhealthy habits and start healthy ones. However, no matter how committed we are, we need help maintaining new routines. After just a few weeks, we may go back to old habits. WHY do we do this and WHAT can we do about it?

Behavior Change, Habits, Healthy Living, Intentional LivingSaundra SchrockFebruary 6, 2023Behavior Change, Goals, Planning

Prepare for Setbacks

As humans, we often think in binary terms such as “black and white” or “all or nothing”, rather than shades of gray. This tendency is called dichotomous thinking. When we are embarking on making behavior changes, we often fall into this trap. Here’s how to avoid it…

Goals, Habits, Behavior Change, ResilienceSaundra SchrockJanuary 30, 2023Healthy Habits, Resilience, Behavior Change

Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself

When we embark on making healthy choices to improve our lives, we will have failures and slip up. Here’s how to handle such situations…

Goals, Habits, Self-CompassionSaundra SchrockJanuary 23, 2023Healthy Habits, Self-Compassion, Behavior Change

Think Differently About Healthy Eating Goals

Most of us have new year’s resolutions or goals to improve our eating. For some of us, it’s about improving our health. For others, it is about losing those pounds we gained over the holidays. Research shows that a non-dieting approach known as “Mindful Eating”, can help us achieve whatever our goal is around eating. Here’s more…

Eating, Goals, HabitsSaundra SchrockJanuary 16, 2023Healthy Habits, Mindful Eating, Eating

New Year - New Beginnings

I understood when I first constructed my New Year’s intentions in 2019 that I would sometimes fail, lose focus, and get distracted, which is what happened. Here’s why repeating your resolutions is perfectly fine…

Resolutions, New Routines, New YearSaundra SchrockJanuary 9, 2023Resolutions, New Year, New Routines

What Purpose Does Sadness Serve?

Most of us would say we want to experience happiness and avoid sadness. We also think of one emotion as good and the other as bad. However, all emotions serve a purpose and are part of what it means to be a human. Here’s why sadness is as important as happiness in our lives…

Well-Being, Happiness, SadnessSaundra SchrockDecember 26, 2022Well-Being, Happiness, Sadness