Ep #117: Working With Your Brain
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In last week's episode, I talked about working against your brain to make habit changes. This week, it's about working with it. I show you how to be a team with your brain and have an adult relationship so you can achieve goals together with the least amount of resistance.
Communication, compromise, and asking questions are the core of this. List in to learn why and how you can incorporate them into working on changing your habits.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 117. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:15.1 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life. |
| 0:19.2 | And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can apply |
| 0:23.5 | in your own life. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. |
| 0:27.0 | Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, welcome back. |
| 0:32.8 | Last week here on the podcast, I talked about working against your brain in order to change habits |
| 0:38.9 | and change how you think. That one and this one are kind of a two-parter. So if you didn't listen |
| 0:45.8 | to that one, I suggest you do before listening to this one. And if you did listen, |
| 0:51.1 | good job there, listener. And here's a brief recap for you. If you want to change your |
| 0:58.4 | behavior habits, you must begin with changing your thought habits since all actions begin with a |
| 1:04.6 | thought. A problem that you face when you try to do that, though, is that your brain doesn't like |
| 1:09.8 | to change. It likes habits. So when you try to do that, though, is that your brain doesn't like to change. It likes habits. |
| 1:12.6 | So when you try to do things differently and think differently, your brain may resist. To remind you, |
| 1:19.0 | when I talk about your brain and you, what I'm really talking about is your lower brain and your |
| 1:25.0 | higher brain, just so we're clear. And you're not like, well, |
| 1:29.5 | my brain is me and all of that. I'm just trying to make it easier to articulate and to understand. |
| 1:35.8 | So when you're trying to make big changes in your life, there will most likely be resistance. |
| 1:41.7 | So it's important that you hold your ground and keep being consistent. So that's |
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