Darren Treasure, PhD's Blog
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How does body anxiety affect exercise?
On Feb 04, 2011
Do you feel like everyone is watching and evaluating you when you work-out? Does this cause you a great deal of anxiety that undermines your motivation to be active? If it does, you are not alone. Research has shown that the way we think about our body has a significant impact on many of our exercise-related choices. ...Full Post -
Overcome the barriers and make changes in your life
On Jan 11, 2011
Change is really hardDuring the change process you are going to encounter barriers – real and perceived – that will have to be overcome if you are to be successful. Typical barriers to becoming physically activity include no time, too tired, unpleasantness of physical exertion, bad weather, no child
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Why do people want to change?
On Jan 04, 2011
Why do people want to change? Why is change so hard for most people?
Change usually starts because something happens, e.g., visit the doctor who tells us we are “at-risk” for developing a disease; we find ourselves getting out of breath when we walk up the stairs; a friend or relative suffers a heart
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