PHONE IN - Jane Garvey takes your calls about making and breaking habits
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How do you build healthy habits that you actually enjoy? How do you undo habits that have been bugging you for a life time? We want to hear from you about the decisions and actions you make every day that form the fabric of your life. Do you want to take more exercise, stop eating so much chocolate, stop shouting at your children? Would you like to stop procrastinating, bingeing on box sets and biting your nails? How about reading more books, being nicer to your partner and going to bed on time? We want to hear from you about your successes and failures in making and undoing habits. And if you’re looking for guidance Heather McKee, a behaviour change specialist, will be on hand with evidence-based strategies and advice. Phone lines are open from 0800 on Monday. The number to call is 03700 100 444. You can email now via the Woman's Hour Website.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Heather McKee Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | This is the Woman's Our Podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | Hi there, good morning. |
| 0:09.0 | It is a Monday apparently. |
| 0:10.3 | I needed warning, actually, I was told yesterday I was presenting this program. |
| 0:13.5 | It was a very useful reminder. |
| 0:15.4 | It's a live phone in. |
| 0:16.7 | We want your calls, O3-700-100-4444, on the subject of habits, how you change your habits, |
| 0:24.1 | how you establish good ones, how you get out of the bad ones. |
| 0:28.0 | This isn't about a new year, new me thing. |
| 0:30.8 | There'll be no mention of Beach Body Ready, because as I've said before, on this program, |
| 0:35.1 | if you're near a beach and you've got a body, then you are indeed Beach Body Ready. |
| 0:38.3 | But all of us fall into ropey old habits around this time of year, or we just become irritated |
| 0:44.9 | by the ones that seem so completely entrenched in our lives. |
| 0:48.4 | So how do you go about making positive change? |
| 0:52.2 | My companion this morning, who's been hurled, I don't think that's too strong a word, |
| 0:55.9 | a world into a studio, RTE and Dublin, is Dr Heather McKee. |
| 0:59.4 | It all happened very quickly for you, Heather, good morning to you. |
| 1:01.9 | Hi, good morning, happy Christmas. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you, same to you. |
| 1:04.7 | You are a behavior change specialist, so you're an ideal guest for me this morning. |
| 1:09.7 | It is possible to change habits, isn't it? |
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