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51 — Boost Your Willpower When It Matters Most

51 — Boost Your Willpower When It Matters Most

FromMentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin


51 — Boost Your Willpower When It Matters Most

FromMentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin

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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Your brain plays psychological tricks on you when you try to change your habits. It will try to talk you into indulging in a bad habit and convince you to abandon your good habits.
Fortunately, there's a powerful strategy we use in the therapy office that can boost your willpower right when you need it most.
Here are some things I share:

Why our brains try to talk us out of doing things we should do

The powerful strategy that will counteract your brain's tricks

How to challenge your brain's attempts to sabotage your efforts


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Released:
Nov 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin will help you build the mental strength you need to reach your greatest potential. Host Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and international best-selling author of five books on mental strength. On Mondays, she interviews experts, authors, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and celebrities about the strategies they use to overcome the biggest battle we all face — the battle within our own minds. She then breaks down their strategies in "The Therapist's Take" section of the episode so you can apply their strategies to your own life. Every Friday, she shares "The Friday Fix," a quick exercise from her therapy office that can help you grow mentally stronger today.