What if you can reprogram your brain to crave healthier habits instead? If you could figure out a way to create that magnetic pull towards healthy foods, you wouldn’t have to keep trying to force yourself into eating healthy. Instead, you would be eating healthy foods on autopilot.Here’s another question. Can this magnetism be changed? Could your programming be reprogrammed? Well here’s the thing, most people don’t recall feeling particularly drawn to junk foods at earlier ages, so...

Want to know the secret to getting better sleep? How about the secret to losing weight? What about the secret to becoming more patient, more confident, more skilled and more of anything you want to change.Whether it’s health, fitness, relationships, addictions or other goals, there are inevitably going to be different variables depending on your personal circumstances. But there is one underlying constant you’ll find over and over again, which is very similar to being able to get a...

When you see perfectionism in others and see the results of perfectionism, you would probably have a hard time believing that perfectionism could be holding so many people back. Truth is, perfectionism is holding many people back in a lot of ways. When you see a perfectly clean home, a perfect workplace report and a perfect garden you can't help but envy the perfectionist, we often think we are somehow flawed when we look at the outcomes of the perfectionist vs our own. Perfectionism takes...

One of the most common reasons that people come in to therapy is because of what they describe as a feeling like being stuck. What that means is, being stuck is when essentially we know one thing up here, we know consciously the logical level, we realize reality, but there's something on the inside that just feels very, very different.We know what we should be eating, we know what we should be avoiding, we know what habits are bad for us, we know what habits are good for us, but de...

I once had a therapy client who told me she bought an exercise bike about six months prior to coming in for some one on one coaching. As is the fate of most exercise bikes, treadmills and gym equipment, it just sat there getting dusty. So she was thinking about getting rid of it. The reason, was that she lacked the energy or motivation to use it and wanted to know how to get back into that mindset to lose weight.My suggestion was this, that she make a routine where she would do jus...

Our entire lives, we’ve always been taught to stay away from things like drugs because they are addictive. Their addiction is said to be due to the chemicals they contain, but how about things like gambling? Gambling does not contain chemicals. So how can a behaviour, rather than a chemical, be addictive?But more important questions re – why is it that certain people become addicted and other not? Why do people become more addicted at certain times of their lives than others? And o...

Stress is a natural thing that occurs within all of us, stress and anxiety can occur momentarily or (acutely) and it can also occur frequently (chronic). Ive had a lot of experiences dealing with stress and anxiety in my life. There has been so many times in my life where I have become so crippled, overwhelmed with stress that I just couldn’t move forward and it was a big driver towards unhealthy habits and addictions for me. Now, most people I come across in often stressful situations are...

Depression is something that I know well myself, both from personal experience and from the experiences of many people close to me. I remember receiving the diagnosis and the explanation that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain. I saw numerous doctors but I only seem to remember them asking me about the symptoms. As I recall, the outcome was only ever one of four things...The doctor would tell me that I would have to start medication, the next doctor would ask me to stop medicat...

Human beings, like other mammals, were never meant to be solitary creatures. We have an innate need to bond and feel connected with others in order to lead a fulfilled life, and so quite often the quality of your life is most powerfully determined by the quality of your relationships. As a result, sometimes one of the biggest causes of stress, frustration, even pain and emotional trauma, often revolves around relationships. And so a lot of people really find themselves quite stuck when it ...

The term ‘burn your boats’ comes from a lesson in History going way back to the 1500’s where a Spanish expedition to conquer Mexico saw the Spanish army’s leader burn the boats they had arrived on. He realised that so long as his men knew there was a chance of retreat, they would never be able to put in 100% of their effort towards conquering the new land. He gave them no choice. Once they knew there was no way out, the men worked harder than ever to conquer the Aztec empire. The men knew ...

The sad reality is that life isn’t like the movies. There is often no real fairytale outcomes, divorce statistics are growing and more and more couples are growing apart, we are simply not as close or loyal as we once were and the ability to meet new partners has also grown with the invention of mobile phones, the internet, facebook and dating sites over the last few decades.What commonly occurs during nasty breakups is that both individuals lay blame and fault on each other, reluc...

So you're struggling to get motivated?You need to recognise that if you’re not feeling motivated, its not just your physical energy but your mental energy as well. And mental energy becomes drained when you (whether you realise it or not) are avoiding stuff that you really ‘should’ be doing. Essentially what I’m saying here is that its always a lot more difficult to motivate yourself to do things you should be doing opposed to the ones in which you want to be doing.So the f...