Psychologists Tell Healf Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail
“New Year's resolutions often fail because they focus on external quick fixes such as extreme...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: December 30, 2024
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. The irony of resolutions: Why a restrictive mindset doesn’t work
- 2. Are New Year’s resolutions healthy?
- 3. Turning resolutions into affirmations, can it be done?
- 4. Why “surface-level” goals fail
- 5. Shifting from reaction to response
- 6. Exploring the psychology of lasting change
- 7. 5 ways to swap resolutions for compassionate change
- 8. Defining the “deeper work”
- 9. Healthy alternatives to New Year’s resolutions: The takeaways
