Want to or Have to?: Willpower vs. Intrinsic Motivation

A decadent chocolate dessert. A generous pour of chilled Chardonnay. An enticing display of the new fall line in your favorite storefront. The aroma of your favorite cigarette. Stimuli designed to trip you up, yet again. We all have our bad habits. Our battles that we’ve spent far too long fighting. Yet, we feel like Read More

Don’t Control…Create!

This is the time of year where, as I like to put it, “something’s got to give.” With the busy-ness of the holidays, calorie-dense food and drink everywhere I look, the cold and dark creating an unfriendly environment for exercising, a variety of illnesses infecting my household, and this year my husband being away, I Read More