Welcome to the second part of "Challenges to Long-Term Change Efforts - a three Part Look at Goals for Long Term Change. You can read part 1 here. And part 2 here. I have a distinct image in my head from Scooby-Doo! of Shaggy and Scooby getting scared by a monster. In their moments of panic, the show depicts them trying to run and their legs go round and round in circles as they try to run away quickly without having any prior momentum. Humans are not high performance sports cars that can go...

Welcome to the second part of "Challenges to Long-Term Change Efforts - a three Part Look at Goals for Long Term Change. You can read part 1 here. It’s Probably not Laziness Social narratives about not being able to enact change or complete certain goals often get unfairly reduced to laziness. This is not a helpful framework - some even question the actual prevalence of laziness. More often than not, I think procrastination toward many things, particularly goals, is more about the big...

Chances are, anyone who comes to therapy is hoping for something to be different. The end-goal is different for every person who engages the process but one common experience many (if not most) people have is how difficult it can be to move toward the change that we want. Navigating barriers arising between Point A and Point B can be some of the scariest, most frustrating, most difficult and also most important areas of potential transformation. Below are just a few barriers that are fairly...