Making lasting changes is not easy. Regardless of whether the changes you want to make impact your personal or professional life, change takes substantial time and effort. Creating lasting change may ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juan Carlos Medina, CFP, focuses on holistic financial wellness. I think we can all agree that change is not easy. There can be so ...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if change happened in an instant? Wouldn't it be great to wake up in the morning and think: “I want to start eating better.” And then we do. Or decide, “I am going to stop ...

Change isn’t easy, especially when it involves breaking habits. Anyone who has ever made a New Year’s resolution knows this ­all too well. What you may not know is that, according to research on ...

Tomlin, K.M, and Richardson, H. (2004). Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change: Integrating Best Practices for Substance Abuse Professionals. Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services, ...

The beginning of every new year comes with resolutions and plans for behavior change. Often the quest to improve health behaviors, such as losing weight, increasing physical activity or quitting ...

Health behavior change is such a fascinating area of study because it's something that every single human deals with -- day in and day out. Even the most disciplined can identify behaviors they want ...