Transtheoretical model

Today's conversation explores what it means to move beyond simply understanding ourselves, and into actually changing.

We'll talk about the stages of change, why reality acceptance is one of the most important freeing skills we can develop, and how discovering your authentic self brings more joy, energy, and meaning to everyday life.

We'll also tackle some of the hardest relationship challenges people face: trust after betrayal, healing from infidelity, addiction recovery, relapse, people-pleasing, resentment, and shame.

These are painful topics, but they're also where some of the greatest opportunities for growth can be found.

Mm-hmm.

I think that's part of it.

In another blog post, you talk about the stages of change.

Since change is such a hard thing for all of us, I think it'd be good to understand your ideas about these four ch- stages.

Learned and earned through doing it the wrong way for so long, figuring out how to do it the right way.

And then, and the education of learning the frameworks, like the frameworks that I'm talking about are, you know, the stages of change is a framework, right? Life domains wheel is a framework.

And then you know how in the book, Unhooked, I marry those two showing diagrams where those are overlaid.

So there's layered frameworks on top of layers.

And the review is the first framework that is important to remember and to understand is that I'm going to share, and I'm also going to share a little visual for those of you that are here live, and those of you who are watching this on YouTube will be able to see the visual.

Those of you that listen to this on the podcast will not be able to check it out if you ever pivot over to the So this is one of the frameworks.

As a reminder, the stages of change from Prochaska and DiClemente, this is a trans-theoretical model, meaning this overlays a lot of populations and research.

And specifically, we use this in substance use disorder, but it can be applied in any behavior change for anyone.