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Everyone has lapses – small slips, moments, or even brief periods of time when you fall back into old habits and old patterns.
Show Notes
Everyone has lapses – small slips, moments, or even brief periods of time when you fall back into old habits and old patterns.
Lapses can be an opportunity to learn something useful. But all too often, a lapse leads to self-defeating and catastrophizing thoughts, which lead to further lapses. Before you know it, a series of small lapses has snowballed into a full-blown relapse–or a return to an old behavior or pattern. In this episode, we talk about how to process and rebound from those inevitable slips.
Takeaways
Takeaways
- Lapses happen to all of us–even those who seem like they never struggle.
- A lapse can be an opportunity that makes us even stronger.
- Telling yourself that you “always” sabotage yourself is a particularly unhelpful story.
- The more you can learn from a lapse, the better you can rebound from it–and make future lapses less likely.
Lab Experiment
- A lapse can be an opportunity that makes us even stronger.
- Telling yourself that you “always” sabotage yourself is a particularly unhelpful story.
- The more you can learn from a lapse, the better you can rebound from it–and make future lapses less likely.
Lab Experiment
- When you realize that a lapse has occurred, stay calm and be kind to yourself.
- Remember that a brief lapse will not erase all of your progress.
- Remind yourself of all the positive steps you have made. Don’t put all your focus on the one negative step.
- Reflect on your purpose in beginning this journey.
- Remember that giving up never moves you any closer to your goal.
- Remember that a brief lapse will not erase all of your progress.
- Remind yourself of all the positive steps you have made. Don’t put all your focus on the one negative step.
- Reflect on your purpose in beginning this journey.
- Remember that giving up never moves you any closer to your goal.
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Host
Monica Reinagel
Monica Reinagel has been helping people create healthier lives for more than 15 years through her Nutrition Diva podcast, books, online coaching programs and in-person workshops. As a licensed and board-certified nutritionist, her approach is grounded in science but is also practical and realistic. Monica is also a former professional opera singer.
What is Change Academy?
Learn how to cultivate a more productive mindset, form sustainable habits, and create a lifestyle that supports both your goals and your wellbeing with host, Monica Reinagel. Drawing on decades of expertise and experience, Monica provides guidance on navigating the challenging process of behavior change in a fun and accessible way. Learn more and find show notes for every episode at https://changeacademypodcast.com