Food coaching, emotional triggers and behaviour change

Health Tech Matters: Talks About Healthcare Products and Design

In this episode, we are talking about joyful therapy, actionable steps for behaviour change, and how to keep patients motivated for a long time. Quotes from the episode: 1. "I think the most important thing when it comes to behavior changes that it's personal, that clients are excited to change and there's some energy there for them. I am really looking at where's the excitement, where's the spark. Once you build confidence, by following those things that you are motivated to change, then bigger and more complex things become more manageable." 2. "It is a huge aspect of our coach approach to celebrating the tiny wins, big wins, the step that was taken because it activates the reward circuitry of the brain and ultimately helps to keep the motivation going and it's fun together. The other piece of it is, sometimes the change process might seem heavy or difficult and there's this real inclination towards having fun, through it all and not getting overwhelmed by the weight of it all. I would say the celebration piece really helps to bring lightness into the mix." 3. "We don't really integrate all the experiences that we're having. Being able to have some tools to express the emotions, to name them, to process them, and metabolize as experiences can be useful. And so for some people, it could be journaling and saying "Here are some of the experiences I had today. What do they bring up for me? That insight I was feeling... Oh, I didn't realize I was still feeling some of this from that experience!" 4. "It's hard to delineate work life from home life from other life. And it's one thing that I find really helpful is to take time to reset in the day between when I might be going from working hours to home hours with my family or my friends, or with a passion project that I have. You could think of it as a transition reset to bring more presence into this moment intentionally. "Okay. I know there's always gonna be more things to do. And right now I'm going to be choosing this. I'm going to be focusing my energy on these things to be able to really create a mindful transition." 5. "I'm a huge advocate of creating a sacred space. It can be something very simple, but that is a place that you can go to when you need to reset. What makes the place sacred is the energy we bring to it. So being able to design a little area where we can go and have our quiet time or check-in time, or mindful moments is key." Our guest: Rebecca Thieneman, VP of Nutrition and Health Coaching at digital food and nutrition platform Monj Health, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rthieneman. ___________ How to find me? Maria Borysova, healthcare product designer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-borysova/