From Healthcare to Self-Care: New Science for Creating Sustainable Behaviour Change
In this course, Dr. Michelle Segar explains how clinicians can help clients move beyond short-term attempts at behavioural change and develop sustainable self-care by reframing behaviours such as physical activity, sleep, and eating well as immediate sources of energy, mood, focus, and identity-based support.
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In this course, behavioural sustainability scientist Dr. Michelle Segar, Ph.D., MPH, MS, introduces a research-aligned approach to helping clients sustain self-care behaviours by shifting from traditional healthcare messaging to motivationally effective self-care framing. The course explores why future-oriented health, weight, and disease-prevention goals often fail to sustain behaviour, and shows how immediate rewards, positive affect, identity, and values can help clients make more consistent daily decisions. You will learn practical ways to reframe self-care as essential fuel for the roles, relationships, and responsibilities clients value most.
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