Rebuild Your Identity in 3 Steps and Finally Make Habits Last | Dr. Kim Foster
16 September - 1 hour 4 minsYou can have every fact, every plan, and still quit by Thursday, because the story underneath never changed.
Dr. Kim Foster, a family physician who practiced for twenty years, sat down with Lewis after a patient with rising blood pressure told her, “I'm just not an exercise person.” That one line reframed everything: behavior change is an identity problem wearing an information costume. Her book, Redesigning You, turns that into a three-step method of recognizing the old story, redesigning it, and then going out to collect proof.
She talks about the bridge identity, the small believable stretch your brain will actually accept instead of a mirror affirmation it answers with, “Interesting. B...
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