I don’t know about you, but I feel like stress management is an enormous buzzword these days.   Everyone is talking about how stress affects your goals and habits: If you’re stressed out, you can’t maintain your habits. If you’re stressed out, it’s going to impact your health. If you’re stressed out, bad consequences are […]

In today’s video, we’re going to talk about stress and how stress is probably contributing to your ability, or in this case, inability to maintain those behaviors that make you feel your very best. I’m also going to give you my top 3 stress management techniques. Raise your hand if you settle into a really, […]

Pretty much everyone I know right now is stressed out. So that’s what we’re going to talk about today. If you’re feeling stressed and you need a little bit of assistance in reducing that stress, this post is for you. I’m going to share 3 ways to reduce daily stress in your life.   I […]

As a behavior change coach, I see a lot of people making mistakes when they are setting goals. In this post, I’m going to talk about the most common goal-setting mistakes I see people make. I have seen a lot, but there are 3 things that really stick out to me as not only the most […]

n this post, I’m going to share with you 2 mindset shifts I made that completely changed my life and really transformed my relationship with habits, my own behavior, and change in general. When I say these are the TOP 2, I want you to know and understand that that means a lot. I have a Ph.D. in […]

Okay, y’all. Today we have to talk about how to stop self-sabotage. It’s actually kind of funny that I am writing this post right now because I just had a very long conversation with my personal behavior coach about the ways that I was sabotaging some of my own behavior changes. If you’ve tried self-help techniques and they haven’t worked…that could […]

“I’m just not the type of person who can _________.”  If you have ever said this phrase, this post is going to be a little bit of a gut check because that is a sign that you might have a fixed mindset vs. growth mindset. Hi, my name is Dr. Karin Nordin and I am […]

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You know that you should go to the gym, maybe you theoretically even want to go to the gym. But when that calendar appointment rolls around and it’s time for you to put those workout leggings on, you do not want to do it at all. If that’s you, and if that’s the case, this […]

Do you have a goal that you’ve set for yourself?  Maybe you want to do your skincare regularly or run a half marathon or finally be consistent in the gym. Let me ask you this: have you created a system for how you’re actually going to achieve that goal? If you haven’t, this post is for you. I’ve spent a lot of […]

Are there behaviors in your life that you’re struggling to change? You know exactly what you’re SUPPOSED to do (or even want to do)… but the day-to-day practice of actually doing it is a struggle. You just can’t find the motivation to actually make the change. Today, we are going to talk about meta motivational regulation, which is science-speak for how […]