How Many Burpees Does a Snickers Cost?
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

How Many Burpees Does a Snickers Cost?

Tricked ya. Thinking about your food in terms of needing to “earn” it (by exercising in advance), or “burn” it (by doing exercise afterward), is a recipe for an unhealthy relationship with food.

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What’s Your Self-Love Language?
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

What’s Your Self-Love Language?

Self-love is as necessary to our well-being as interpersonal love. The structure of the 5 Self-Love Languages can help you uncover how to most effectively cultivate and express self-love.

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3 Reframes for Black-and-White Food Thinking
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

3 Reframes for Black-and-White Food Thinking

Labeling foods as “good” or “bad,” “healthy” or “unhealthy,” and “allowed” or “off limits” are great ways to foster an unhealthy relationship with food.

Here are three ways you can reframe black-and-white food thinking:

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Why I’ll NEVER say, “It’s not my job to motivate you.”
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

Why I’ll NEVER say, “It’s not my job to motivate you.”

A coach that doesn’t believe in fostering client motivation either doesn't understand where motivation comes from and how to increase it…or they do understand motivation, but can’t be bothered to foster it in their clients—which is just bad coaching.

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Tomorrow is NOT a Fresh Start
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

Tomorrow is NOT a Fresh Start

If you’re comforting yourself by thinking that tomorrow—or Monday, or the first of the month, or the first of the year—will be a new day, a fresh start, you’re deluding yourself. Here’s how to ACTUALLY move forward.

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5 Proven Paths to Happiness
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

5 Proven Paths to Happiness

You can spend all of your time trying to collect things that will bring you joy, and with each new wonderful experience, happiness will seem to escape through your fingers. Here are 5 proven ways to hold onto it.

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If Your Clothes Are Too Small…
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

If Your Clothes Are Too Small…

If you’ve outgrown your clothes, your body isn’t the problem. But your mind might need some extra support to keep from believing that.

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What Humans Can Learn from Drug-Addled Rats
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

What Humans Can Learn from Drug-Addled Rats

In a series of now-famous experiments studying the nature of addiction, psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his team raised their lab rats in two groups: those in small, solitary cages, and others in a so-called Rat Park. Can you guess what happened?

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What is Your Disordered Eating Covering Up?
Alicia Castaneda Alicia Castaneda

What is Your Disordered Eating Covering Up?

If you’re feeling controlling, chaotic, or obsessive around food and would like to stop and get to a place where you feel normal, then at some point you’re going to need to look deeper than the food.

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