Taking Charge of Your Life

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Pop is an acronym that means we are taking charge because it's meaningful to us but pop is also the steps of the tool so we pause you know i'm about the million and tenth person in history or more to talk about the value of pausing when we're at a challenge. Pop gives us the space to regroup take a breath support our executive functioning harness our attention for step two which is oh to open up our options and play with the possibilities. The third part of cap is pick the joy choice and the joy choice is the perfect imperfect option that lets us do something instead of nothingso the stakes are very low but what the system does is it can guide our thinking which cuts out

This week I was privileged to welcome Michelle Segar to the show to discuss her new book The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise. Michelle is a researcher at The University of Michigan who studies sustainable behavior change and the science of habits. In this conversation Michelle unpacks the science behind our choices and explains how thinking around behavior change has often made the mistake of an all or nothing approach to changing our habits and lifestyle.

The Joy Choice offers a fresh, brain-based solution that turns the old behavior-change paradigm on its head. This groundbreaking book liberates you from the self-defeating obligations and rigid requirements of past diet and workout regimens and reveals what emerging research suggests really drives the consistent choices that power sustainable change.

Michelle Segar, PhD is an award-winning lifestyle coach and sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan. For nearly three decades, she has pioneered methods to create sustainable healthy behavior changes that are being used to boost patient health, employee well-being, and gym membership retention.

Website: https://michellesegar.com

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