Since reading Daring Greatly – How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown* I’ve started to notice even more how people talk to themselves down over and over again. And since I spend most of my time training clients in a gym, this negative self talk is most often related to one’s body and self-image.
“I am fat/weak/bad/” or insert any other negative adjective. These are some common sentences that I hear every day. It’s what Brown calls shame-talk and something that has a very negative consequences to our self-worth and well-being (more…)
Category: Mindfulness
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Is Self-Shaming Corroding Your Chances of Change?
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Are You a Victim of “The Perfect Life” – Trap?
Too often we set ourselves these major goals in training, weight loss, career, life and solely focus on getting to that place, wherever it might be. You want to live in that perfect house, earn a certain amount of money, get to a certain weight, reach a certain body fat percentage… It’s the same cycle over and over again, ‘once I get to [insert any goal anyone has ever had] it will be perfect, then I am happy’.

