The Voice Inside
Reading Time: < 1 minutesGood Ol’ Shel Silverstein! This sweet little poem speaks so well to the spirit of Motivational Interviewing. Why do I talk so much about the spirit of MI? Because, it’s not MI without the spirit. Sometimes I think about the concept of...
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...
Hillary Bolter