Dec 10, 2019
In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Dr. Jen Howk, lecturer and psychology coach at the TrueNorth Health Center. We unwrap the psychology of healthy habits, sustaining a plant-based lifestyle and the pleasure trap. We explore emotional eating, how making mistakes is part of the process and why a B+ is so much better than an A. This conversation is upbeat and fun, but it will also help you understand some familiar concepts in a much different way. We really get deep into why we make the choices we do.
Dr. Jen Howk is an author,
researcher, and psychology coach. She earned her B.A. from the
University of Washington in Seattle and completed her M.A. and
Ph.D. at Harvard University. She is a born and raised Alaskan, but
now calls Santa Rosa, California home, where she works at the
TrueNorth Health Center as a lecturer and psychology coach. Her
clinical work is rooted in powerful insights and tools from
evolutionary psychology, particularly the "Esteem Dynamics"
framework she has developed with Dr. Doug Lisle. Her clinical
interests are wide-ranging, but she is especially passionate about
helping clients through problems of esteem processes, romantic
misery, addiction and recovery, and mastering the pathways of human
motivation.
Please be sure to share this with
anyone who is trying to make healthy changes in their life,
plant-based or not.
In this episode we discuss:
- Finding plant-based
- Human psychology
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Consciousness
- The big 5
- What calculated success
- The pleasure trap
- Detox and withdrawal
- Food and sex
- Self-esteem
- Process over outcome
- Emotional eating
- Addictive process
- Getting a B+
- True North Health Centre
- Relapse is part of the recovery