Listen "Mastering Your Health - Tools to Create Lasting Change with Shivaun Conn"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode we’ll be discussing the tools to create lasting changes in order to break habits, plan for success and master your health.
Shivaun Conn is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), Health Coach, Vice President of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and Director of Discovery Health Coaching.
Shivaun has worked for over 15 years as a dietitian, health coach and presenter. She currently coaches individuals in nutrition and lifestyle, trains practitioners in health behaviour change, and develops health change programs across a range of sectors.
Topics:
(0:38) Shivaun’s background and how you started working in the health coaching field
(1.44) What is behaviour change?
(2:17) What is a vision and how do you create one?
(4:01) Where to start when changing our health
(4:56) Common barriers and how to overcome them
(6:11) Reducing the barriers to healthy eating
(7:48) Our environment and health behaviour
(9:30) Thoughts and beliefs, and their impact on behaviour
(11:33) Values and priorities and their link to health
(12:55) Our social network and how it affects our health
(14:08) Setting and staying motivated with goals
(17:00) Creating an action plan to achieve your goals
(19:24) Positive thinking techniques and how it helps to achieve goals
(23:04) Why it’s hard to break habits and how to can overcome this
(25:37) What is the process of working with a health coach
Shivaun Conn is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), Health Coach, Vice President of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and Director of Discovery Health Coaching.
Shivaun has worked for over 15 years as a dietitian, health coach and presenter. She currently coaches individuals in nutrition and lifestyle, trains practitioners in health behaviour change, and develops health change programs across a range of sectors.
Topics:
(0:38) Shivaun’s background and how you started working in the health coaching field
(1.44) What is behaviour change?
(2:17) What is a vision and how do you create one?
(4:01) Where to start when changing our health
(4:56) Common barriers and how to overcome them
(6:11) Reducing the barriers to healthy eating
(7:48) Our environment and health behaviour
(9:30) Thoughts and beliefs, and their impact on behaviour
(11:33) Values and priorities and their link to health
(12:55) Our social network and how it affects our health
(14:08) Setting and staying motivated with goals
(17:00) Creating an action plan to achieve your goals
(19:24) Positive thinking techniques and how it helps to achieve goals
(23:04) Why it’s hard to break habits and how to can overcome this
(25:37) What is the process of working with a health coach
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