Willpower is based on the scientific concept of "activation energy" which explains the amt of effort/energy required to transform the current stable conditions. Willpower and social accountability and encouragement can definitely help us if our resistance is mild.
... but if the resistance in us is huge, then the harder we push ourselves, the harder our resistance might push back, which is exhausting and counter-productive to making change.
About Karen:
Karen Thompson Anderson is a wellbeing and communication coach in Melbourne Australia. Karen grew up in a religious and military family where she learned a lot about the punishment and reward system of goal setting. Karen studied professional communication to post graduate level but stlll really struggled with her personal communication as a partner and a parent, raising two children and also caring for a family member with a serious substance addiction, plus navigating her Dad's palliative care.
From Karen's experience of those difficult years of social isolation, powerlessness, struggle, anger & worry, she committed herself to researching recovery and wellbeing. She says she was pushing herself so hard in every way to try to reclaim her life for her family, her kids, but nothing she tried was sustainable.
Karen's defining moment came after reading a school newsletter and deciding to attend a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) workshop, imagining some compassionate communication might help with achieving the understanding and support she really needed. She's since been on a dedicated journey learning NVC over 10 years now......combined with her wellbeing and recovery story she created her Wellbeing Model in 2016.
In 2020 Karen hosted her first Activate Wellbeing workshop online with www.WiseWomenRising.com.au, and then in 2021 she presented a session at the Australian & NZ Addiction Conference, where she shared the latest understandings from neuroscience about the power of empathy, nonviolent communication and recovery from trauma through stories of her own experiences.
Karen is founder and coach at Activate Wellbeing www.activatewellbeing.com
founder and community manager at Wise Women Rising www.wisewomenrising.com.au
and coach at NVC Australiawww.nvcaustralia.com/trainer/karen-thompson-anderson
Other show links:
Richard Davidson: The Four Constituents of Well-being
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBpsiFQiTI&t=4s
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., one of the world's leading researchers on gratitude, shares how gratitude works in life and in the workplace. Greater Good Science Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGk6USZsVc
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Aired on February 9th 2022
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