Episode 31: Healthy Habits – Gretchen Rubin Book Club

Phoenix Helix: Autoimmune Resilience

Eileen Laird

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This episode of the Phoenix Helix podcast is all about healthy habits - how to create them and maintain them. The stakes are high for us. We have autoimmune diseases which often come with painful and disabling symptoms. Making healthy choices regarding diet and lifestyle can make a huge difference in our quality of life. Yet even knowing this, many people really struggle with making these changes. Change is hard! Today, we’re going to be using a book to frame this discussion. It’s called Better Than Before by author Gretchen Rubin. It’s full of strategies for habit change, personalized for 4 different “habit personalities”: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers and Rebels. On today’s show, I’m joined by 3 other people with autoimmune disease, and each of us has a different one of these habit personalities. We’ll be talking about which habit strategies work for our personality, which don’t, and hopefully provide you with new ideas to support healthy habits in your own life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Phoenix Helix podcast dedicated to reversing autoimmune disease through the paleo,
0:05.3	diet, and lifestyle. While there is no cure for autoimmune disease, the choices we make every day
0:11.0	can have a powerful impact on how we feel. I'm Eileen Laird, your host from phoenix.com, and I've
0:17.8	reduced my rheumatoid arthritis symptoms by 95% and haven't experienced a flare in
0:22.8	over two years.
0:24.1	A short disclaimer.
0:25.7	I'm neither a doctor nor a nutritionist and the opinions expressed here are personal.
0:30.3	Always consult with your health care team before making medical decisions.
0:33.8	Now let's get on to the show.
0:50.0	Music Now let's get on to the show. So welcome to episode 31.
0:52.3	Our topic is healthy habits, how to create them, and how to maintain them.
0:58.0	And podcast listeners and blog readers ask me for help in this area all the time.
1:03.0	The stakes are high for us.
1:05.0	We have autoimmune diseases, which often come with painful and disabling symptoms.
1:10.0	And making healthy choices regarding diet and
1:12.1	lifestyle can make just a huge difference in our quality of life. But even knowing this and even
1:17.6	experiencing this, many people really struggle with making these changes. And we get it. Change is hard.
1:24.4	So today, we're going to be using a book to frame this discussion. Many of you may have
1:29.4	heard of it. It's a New York Times bestseller called Better Than Before by the author Gretchen
1:34.3	Rubin. And it's full of strategies for habit change, but what's cool is they're personalized to
1:40.8	four different habit personalities, upholders,
1:44.3	questioners, obligers, and rebels.
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