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Hi! Following the feedback on my experiences of doing the habituation exercise, I have created an intentional model. I’d be grateful to have your thoughts on it.

C: Habituation Exercise
T: When I show up to do the work in C & T, I’m releasing myself from the shackles of diet culture.
F: I feel courageous, I feel authentic
A: I participate in life, I keep routine, I carry out tasks, work, my hobbies, and move.
R: I am present in my life and in my relationships.

It sounds a little woolly, but I think I mean that when I do the exercise and do the work, I come out of my head and into the real world. And while that’s not always perfect, it’s more authentic and grounding?? I get away from just being obsessed by the battle of food and become involved with more interesting, more real things.

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Hello sister!

Good work showing for coaching, and you have the right framework; just needs tweaking.

Self-coaching differs greatly from positive thinking in which it requires us to get really specific about the T we are trying to change. The first stage of self-coaching is about the unintentional thinking and identify the T’s and belief about the C that do not gives us the R we desire.

When we move to next stage, which is intentional thinking, we need to get a specific T about the C that will create the 1 F we need to feel in order to produce the A’s that will unfold the R.

When I look at your intentional model, you have 2 T’s and 2 F’s. This tells me you have not yet identify the T that’s causing the problem (unintentional models) so you are bringing this confusion to the intentional models with 2 T’s and therefore 2 F’s.

What are you really afraid of about the habituation process? What’s troubling you? When I go back on your last coaching request, it was about being out of control, not trusting your body, wanting to control your emotions, etc… Yet the current intentional T is about “C&T” as a whole and diet culture. That’s the real problem here!

So you need to go back to your unintentional model and really sit with it and determine the unintentional T you want to work on. To help you with this, I’d suggest going back to Confident Lesson 6 and follow the step-by-step process to build your intentional model in the worksheet “change your thought; Change your life.”

Hope this helps!