3 Benefits to Reflective Listening
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently providing a Motivational Interviewing Zoom training to a group of peer wellness coaches from Tennessee. Folks were coming back into the main ‘room’ from virtual breakout rooms having completed complex reflections practice...
Motivational Interviewing as a Way of Being
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently chatting with someone about Motivational Interviewing as a way of being. A way of being? I thought it was a skill set? An Evidence-Based Practice? Motivational Interviewing is actually all of the above. MI is a way of being with...
Motivational Interviewing with YOU!
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI recently had the pleasure of being featured on the Abundance Practice podcast on the topic of using Motivational Interviewing to motivate yourSELF. I had such a great conversation with Allison Puryear. You can listen here! Motivational...
What do Goldilocks and Motivational Interviewing have in common?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a training participant ask me recently, “When is confrontation appropriate? What about when a client is clearly in denial/stuck/not changing?” This is a very good question, the answer of which involves Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I’ll...
You Don’t Need to Know
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI was recently working with someone who was at one of those “fork in the road” moments in their life. I was getting really worked up (in my head), concerned because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big...
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