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Hi I'm Carmen and as a Health Coach I've learned that when people struggle with consistency, they usually think the problem is motivation.¹ But honestly? A lot of the time it’s fear.² Not always obvious fear. Not panic. Not some giant voice screaming “danger.” Sometimes fear sounds more like: “What if I fail again?” “What if I can’t keep this up?” “What if this changes too much?” “What if healthy habits make life boring?” “What if I lose the comfort I’m used to?”² ³ As a coac

Hi I'm Carmen the Lead Health. There is something I want to point out because I see this all the time with people… You might actually be more consistent than you think you are.¹ Not because you’ve done everything perfectly. Not because you never miss workouts. Not because motivation magically showed up every day. But because your relationship with exercise is starting to change.² And honestly? That’s where long-term change actually starts. A lot of people think consistency me

Hi, there! I want to talk about something I see happen all the time. A lot of us get caught in the perfection trap.¹ We think if we can’t do everything exactly how we planned, then somehow we’re failing. But one of the biggest things we learn in positive psychology and behavior change is that chasing those big “I’m changing everything now” moments usually doesn’t last.² We go all in. We think, this time I’ve got it. We try to overhaul everything at once. And for a little whi

Hi there! By now hopefully you know who I am but if not, I'm Carmen the Lead Health Coach. And honestly? One of the biggest things I learned working in transformation and behavior change is that motivation is one of the most misunderstood parts of health change.¹ People think they need more motivation to start. More motivation to stay consistent. More motivation to restart. But motivation is unreliable. It comes and goes based on stress, sleep, emotions, work, life, hormones,

Hey, I’m Carmen, the Lead Health Coach at MHF, and I want to talk to you about something that I see happen all the time. And honestly? I’m not void of this trap either. I’ve worked with hundreds of people over the years, and one thing I can tell you is this: Most people don’t actually fail. They get caught in their own head after losing rhythm for a bit.¹ That’s it. But because we’re human, we make it mean something bigger. “I blew it.” “I can’t stay consistent.” “I always do

Hi, I’m Carmen, the Lead Health Coach with MHF. Something I really want to bring up is this: Every single day we wake up, we start again. It’s a new day. A fresh start. We don’t actually need to wait until Monday, next month, or “when life calms down” to begin again. But if we do feel like we need to wait, it’s worth asking ourselves why. Is it because we feel like we need one last “hoorah” before we start? One last weekend free of exercise. One last cookie. One last time doi