Summary: Today’s episode is all about the power of breathwork and being open to trying something new. I’ll be honest, my only experience with breathwork had been heavily laced with skepticism because I’ve only ever seen the term breathwork used in the woo woo space. However, while my friend, Chelsea Connors, has a very scientific background, as do I, she is also very much into breathwork, and this piques my interest. Even though I was very skeptical of it, even though it was new, even though I had some biases about it, I decided to try it. It’s been quite a fun process to dive into breathwork, to learn from Chelsea, and to kind of enter into this other behavior change tool that, quite frankly, I didn't know existed. In today’s episode, I’ll talk more about why I definitely think it’s a tool I’m adding to my toolbox. Key Takeaways: 0:13 - My Initial Thought of Breathwork 3:26 - Breathwork Research 4:28 - Trying Something New Resources: Body Brain Alliance YouTube Channel: @bodybrainalliance Join Change Academy: https://bodybrainalliance.com/change-academy/ Alliance Coaching Application: www.bodybrainalliance.com/applynow Alliance Coaching: https://bodybrainalliance.com/coaching/ Follow Karin on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/karinnordinphd Transcripts Available at: https://bodybrainalliance.com/blog/

Summary: I recorded this episode in December before the holiday break, and, at that point, I didn't know what my goals for 2023 were going to be. Like many of you, I felt a sense of pressure that I needed to come up with something and commit to it, especially since I’m so public about all of my goals. 

Today’s episode is going to be part one of a two-part episode. In part one, I’ll talk to you about some of the ideas I’m having and give you a very transparent look into my brain. Then, in the follow-up episode (which I’ll record in January and will air in February), I’ll tell you where I ended up, and I’ll give you the story of how I got there. This way you’ll be able to effectively see the before and after of what it looks like for me to set a goal. So, stay tuned for an update in a future episode about where I landed and how I landed there, but, for now, this is the before. This is the messy, uncertain, chaotic brain of Karin Nordin with four or five different goals, unsure of what she’ll prioritize or where she will land.

Key Takeaways:

1:10 - Fitness Goals

2:18 - Financial Goals

2:50 - Word of the Year

3:29 - Frequency Goals

3:46 - Daily Walk Goal

Resources: Body Brain Alliance YouTube Channel: @bodybrainalliance

Join Change Academy: https://bodybrainalliance.com/change-academy/

Alliance Coaching Application: www.bodybrainalliance.com/applynow

Alliance Coaching: https://bodybrainalliance.com/coaching/

Follow Karin on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/karinnordinphd

Transcripts Available at: https://bodybrainalliance.com/blog/

Though it is January when you're hearing this, I am recording this on Friday, December 9th. Tomorrow, we leave for the travels that my partner and I are going on for the holidays, and this past week has been a really stressful one. In today’s episode, I want to talk to you about what I learned, and I want to walk you through my own review and reflection process. This past week was a level of stress I have not experienced in a long time, and I did not like the version of myself that I became in this week of stress. I realized I need to take better care of myself in moments of stress like that, and that starts with being more aware of when they are possibilities and taking more proactive action in order to make sure they don't happen. If you have a stressful situation coming at some point in 2023, what can you do to be more proactively defensive of your future self?

Since we are now nine days into 2023, I want to give you a little bit of a permission slip. I get people all the time who tell me, “I’m here in coaching because I have a problem with follow through. I just can't hold myself accountable.” And my question is always this: are you struggling with self-accountability or are you holding yourself to a goal that was maybe wildly unrealistic and not letting yourself adjust it to your actual life? In this episode, we’ll break down this permission slip and I’ll remind you that if you’re starting to find that your goal may be unrealistic or a punishment disguised as something empowering, you are allowed to change it. Also, if you're interested in a place where you can watch me do more education absolutely for free, find us on YouTube - @bodybrainalliance!

Today’s episode is all about self-accountability. Self-accountability is something that a lot of us have really quirky mindsets about. More and more people have come to me in coaching and told me that they, themselves, are obligers. As a researcher, I have noticed that obliger is almost always a code word for a fixed mindset about the skill of self-accountability. In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into your belief about self-accountability, what it means to be an obliger, and how to move towards a growth mindset for the chance to truly develop self-accountability. PS: In the Change Academy workshop this month, I’ll be talking exactly about how I started to view myself, not as an obliger, but as someone who could learn how to hold myself accountable and the process of how we learn to hold ourselves accountable.

Happy New Year! If you're anything like me, this first week of the year you are feeling light, optimistic, and motivated. We’re all typically really good at holding these new beliefs that we’ve never been able to hold before about our new 2023 selves, but one of the things that we forget to do is capture those beliefs and learn from what’s happening when something is going really well. In today’s episode we’ll discuss capturing this sense of optimism and why it’s important to discover the cause behind the effect of your success. Also, if you are having this amazing week but you're worried about holding yourself accountable for the rest of the year, our Change Academy topic for the month of January is self-accountability. In the Change Academy workshop, we’ll be talking about what self-accountability really is, exactly how to develop it, and tips, tools, and strategies to make it feel empowering instead of something that you’re lacking or a skill you’ve never developed.

With New Year’s right around the corner, I am so excited for this episode! We’ll be talking about sacrificing in the first week of the new year in order to set yourself up for success for the rest of the year. Sometimes the opportunity to experience the mess up and come back from that mess up makes you stronger in the long run. We are here to support you as you head into the New Year, and because I love, love, love to put things on sale, have unique opportunities, and bonuses, keep your eyes on our Instagram account until January second. There will be a lot of opportunities for you that are gonna be debuting on Instagram very soon. Cheers to becoming our 2.0 selves next year!

In light of New Year’s resolutions, there are so many studies about what helps people make major life changes. One of the things that we know from those studies is that a big thing that distinguishes people who complete their goals and people who change their life in big ways and people who don't is social support. In this episode of the New Year’s Resolutions Tips series, we’ll be talking about the benefits of social support on completing your goals. There’s great power in finding someone to hold you accountable in your goal and you doing the same for them in return. Alliance Coaching can be the perfect way to help hold you accountable with your New Year’s resolution! If you have been thinking about doing big things next year, if you're thinking of challenging yourself, if you're thinking of setting big scary goals, if there are things about yourself that you envision, if you want to finally take action to make the version of yourself that you’ve been dreaming of for years into reality, you are the kind of person I want to apply for Alliance Coaching.

Are you someone who is struggling with the potential disappointment of a resolution failing? If so, this episode is for you!