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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

5 Things You Can Do NOW To Change Your Life

We’re all short on time and we want to spend it wisely. Here are five simple things you can do right NOW that really will make a difference in your life. 1. Set goals You hear a lot about goals from me because they really are the foundation for change. Set tangible 30, 90 and one-year goals. Write them down and review them every month. Make sure that they are achievable and when and if you feel stuck, do something--anything--that will take you one baby-step closer to your goal. You don't have to know exactly how you'll achieve it when you set a goal.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Learn to Pause

Busy, high achieving women tend to be hard workers who expect a lot of themselves. Stress, a crowded schedule, and a never-ending to-do list, are common side effects. Overload, worry, and too much to do can lead to stress eating and emotional overeating, weight gain, insomnia and sleep difficulties, and neglecting the healthy habits and routines that help you fight stress in the first place. This is obviously not a recipe for success.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,288 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Life After Weight Loss Surgery - Don't Let Shame and Self-blame Weigh You Down

A huge mistake that people make as they work to lose weight and/or maintain weight loss after weight loss surgery involves getting stuck in self-blame. Self-blame and self-criticism can seriously undermine weight loss efforts. Here are some of the reasons why they can create a trap that you want to avoid: 1. Self-blame breeds shame. Shame is the most isolating emotion that there is. When we feel shame, we feel bad and we want to be invisible. We don't want anyone to see either our shame or ourselves and we start to feel incapable of connecting with others. We want to disappear.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,285 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Getting What You Want and Need: More Tips On Asking

There is a big difference between knowing what you want and asking for it. There is also an important distinction between asking and hinting. Unfortunately, many of us were raised in a culture that encouraged us to be less than direct about what it is we’d like to occur. I talk with many women who aren’t getting what they need or want and aren’t quite sure how to ask for it. Interestingly, many women are able to be direct and assertive in their professional lives but find they stumble and feel uncomfortable when asking to have their personal needs met.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,278 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Be In Your Body

When you are under stress and feeling like you have too much on your plate, identifying how to start making a change can feel daunting. Whether its stress related to work, finances, the holidays, or the people in your life, just thinking about it can leave your brain feeling so full that it’s difficult to problem solve. Guess what? For this quick stress relief tip, you don’t have too.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,273 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Avoiding Emotional Over Eating And Minimizing Stress: Practice Saying "No"

Being stressed, overwhelmed and over-tired is one of the primary causes of over eating. When we are worn out, we are much less able to resist temptation and much more likely to try to sooth or revive ourselves by over eating. My tip for minimizing stress-related emotional over eating: learn to say "no" so that you can say "yes." We can only do what we can do. Really. And, if we want to do it well, we should usually only try to do one thing at a time.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,268 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Weight Loss Surgery and Emotional Eating - Tips for Breaking the Emotional Overeating Cycle

Weight loss surgery patients are often surprised to find old habits with food creeping back into their lives. While the path back to emotional over-eating can be somewhat different depending on what weight loss surgery procedure you had, here's the hard truth: habits related to food, especially the habits of using food to care for our emotional needs, are hard to break. Here are important steps to follow if you recognize emotional over-eating after weight loss surgery: 1. Identify it Name it for what it is.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,262 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Are You Dreaming Big?

So many people have wonderful dreams that are buried just beneath the surface--a book they'd love to write, a business venture they'd like to pursue, a race they'd like to sign up for, or a trip they want to take. If only. If only they had: more time, more motivation, more get-up-and-go. If only they weren't so busy, or if only they had--more money, more connections, more support. If only they could get organized, or if only they could get some time to think. If only they could figure out the first steps. Here's what I know: 1.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,234 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating and Coping With Overwhelm

Overwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, sometimes–no matter how skilled or proactive or positive we are–overwhelm just plain happens. A colleague sent me a gift recently. She sent me a timer. She didn’t have to explain what it was for, because I know her strategy. She’s about getting big things done by making them do-able. That is such an important key.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,233 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Is Perfectionism Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?

Is perfectionism sabotaging your weight loss or your relationship with food? It might be. Trying to get it "perfect" can actually make emotional eating much worse--not to mention the negative impact it has on self esteem.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,226 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Could Playing More Help You Eat and Stress Less?

Emotional eating is a signal that life is out of balance. Emotional eating and overeating happen when we use food to try to help us manage our feelings. The triggers for emotional eating vary–we might eat to cope with loneliness, unhappiness, stress or boredom. Sometimes we eat for comfort or in an attempt to create a pleasant experience, when food really isn't what we crave. Finding other avenues to meet our emotional needs and other ways to shift our moods is one of the most powerful things we can do to take charge of our eating, our weight, and our health.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,222 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

The Number One Weight Loss Mistake

The number one weight loss mistake that dieters and emotional overeaters make has nothing to do with food--but it flavors everything. The number one mistake people make when they are trying to gain control of emotional overeating is that they get mad at themselves and beat themselves up emotionally when things don't go as planned, when they have a slip,or when they overeat.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,213 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating: Creating Changes That Last

I’ve spent a lot of time in airports lately. That means that I’ve spent a lot of time at the news stand, scanning the covers of magazines, looking for some nice relaxing reading material.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,188 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Life Coaching 101: 3 Steps To Moving Forward and Getting Where You Really Want To Go

As a Life Coach, I help people get where they want to go and do what they’ve always dreamed of doing. Over and over again I've seen people achieve tremendous goals and create enormous change—the kind of progress that tends to make other people say, "Oh, I could never do that!" My clients leave the jobs they hate and create satisfying new career paths. They lose the weight they are tired of battling. They make significant emotional or geographic moves.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,101 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Weight Loss That Lasts--The Importance Of Maintenance

The most consistently neglected part of the weight loss process is the phase of “maintenance.” Without solidifying our ability to maintain, our chances of creating lasting change in our relationship with food or enduring weight loss are slim.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,041 views

By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How To Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do

There is a tricky balance between being kind and compassionate and not-too-hard-on ourselves and digging deep and forging ahead when that is the only way to get the job done. There are times when we have to do just that. When if we don't stand up tall and brave we lose. Times when we need to go after what we want with powerful tenacity. Times when we have to face down our fears or do the things we think we cannot do. Sometimes the things we think we cannot do are personal challenges (like quitting smoking or earning a Black Belt).

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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