Do you ever feel unmotivated?
I know--that question is almost laughable, isn't it? Sometimes I feel like all I ever am is unmotivated. I always have a huge list of the things that I "should" be doing, and somehow it seems like the majority of it doesn't get done.
And then, of course, I have parts that feel guilty for just sitting on the couch.
But thanks to my guest on this week's podcast, I now know that me sitting on the couch is me being motivated: it means I'm motivated to rest! And we all need rest, right??
Motivation is one of those things that I hear people say they struggle with all the time. I think many of us tend to feel that we need motivation in order to get anything done, and that motivation is often elusive. And I sometimes think that we expect motivation to drop down out of the sky.
I don't know about you, but that doesn't seem to happen to me. And this weeks' guest, Dr. Shawn Hondorp, can help us understand why. Shawn is a board-certified Clinical Health Psychologist and health behavior expert. She has a top-rated podcast called Motivation Made Easy: Body Respect, True Health where she outlines effective approaches to improve health and well-being by looking at how research and real world experience collide via conversation and personal stories.
And Shawn is here to talk to us about motivation. In this week's episode we cover different types of motivation, including:
Not surprisingly, the more intrinsic the motivation, the longer we're likely to stick with something.
Shawn and I also have a conversation about how we both started our careers in the area of weight loss. We both note that we still carry some guilt and shame about it. But thankfully, part of Shawn's work is to meet other helpers where they're at and educate them about the benefits of approaching clients from an anti-diet, weight-neutral approach.
Take a listen!
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