The Importance of Motivation Interviewing

Motivation Interviewing is almost like a way to realign yourself with the fact that behavior change, and making exercise and healthy eating, something that's involved in your life. And I think you're right, like it is very easy for lots of us as personal trainers to forget, or maybe we've never actually experienced just how hard it is. We have this implicit in our culture kind of expectation, not expectation, that's the wrong word, implicit bias. That if you can't draw, you are a morally bad person, you're lazy, you're stupid, you're just quite worthless. All that cultural stuff sits on the side of kind of their difficulties with change. And reminding