The Health Coaches Podcast Howard Jacobson

In this conversation with Glenn Livingston, PhD, of Never Binge Again, Howard explores the uses - and misuses - of motivation.

Christin Bummer is a plant-based health coach who focuses on getting her clients to challenge their limiting beliefs as a precursor of significant behavior change. We chatted about her own journey, her coaching approach, and the importance of intuition and self-work for coaches.

Sometimes our clients come to us with urgent situations - often upsetting - that they want to spend the session on. It's easy to get sucked into these requests, but it's almost always a mistake. In this episode, Howard explains why urgent issues are usually a dead end, and how to counter the request in a respectful and genuinely valuable way.

In this episode, Howard talks about the difference between a relief- and a satisfaction-orientation, and how to skillfully shift our clients from relief to satisfaction while honoring their needs and perspectives.

When we set external and future goals ("lose 20 pounds in 3 months"), they can function as a GPS for our daily actions and decisions. But what happens when we either reach those goals ("I guess I'm done - let's celebrate with some junk food") or decide they aren't that motivating compared to the urge to binge in the moment?

Kate Galli is a personal trainer and vegan health coach in Sydney, Australia, as well as a health and animal rights activist and podcaster.

Howard spoke with her about the three biggest obstacles to going plant-based that she encounters in her clients, and how she deals with them.