Have you ever watched a client fall off track and chalked it up to a lack of motivation? What if that's not actually what's going on?

Clients who can't seem to stick to the plan might have nothing to do with motivation and everything to do with this: lack of discomfort tolerance. The process of behavior change requires staying resilient when things get uncomfortable, and this is something coaches are almost never taught how to help their clients build. Until now.

In this episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down the real reason clients struggle to stick to the plan and shares practical strategies coaches can start using right away. She covers:

• Why clients don't struggle because they don't know what to do (they struggle because they can't tolerate the discomfort that comes with doing it)
• The research behind self-efficacy, stress mindset, and psychological flexibility and why it all matters for behavior change
• 5 coaching strategies to build discomfort tolerance, including urge surfing, stress reappraisal, and reflective debriefing
• The coaching mistakes that accidentally keep clients stuck

If you want to help clients push through the hard stuff and actually see results that last, this episode is for you.

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Sources:

Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The Exercise of Control.

Feltz, D. L. (1982). Path analysis of the causal elements in Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy and an anxiety-based model of avoidance behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Jamieson, J. P., Mendes, W. B., Blackstock, E., & Schmader, T. (2010). Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 208–212.

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Rethinking stress: The role of mindsets in determining the stress response. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 716–733.