EPISODE · May 6, 2025 · 15 MIN
#111 | Rewriting Hard To Break Habits By "Keeping Just The Essence" While Still Moving Towards Autoimmune Health
from Autoimmune Health Secrets | Ease Fatigue & Improve Your Health With Autoimmune Disease Using Simple Feel-Good Habits · host Amy Behimer, PharmD, NBC-HWC
Send us Fan MailDo you ever try to quit something you love—only to find yourself missing something and wanting to dive right back in?What if instead of giving up entirely, you learned how to keep the essence — the part of the habit you really enjoy — and transform it into something healthier? In this episode, I'll introduce you to a powerful strategy to help you shift gently away from habits that aren’t serving you, while preserving the feeling, sensory element, or ritual that gives it meaning.Learn how to identify the “essence” of a habit (flavor, feeling, ritual, sensory cues)Discover practical swaps and experiments (e.g. fancy glass + sparkling water instead of wine)Understand why this method works: it keeps the cue and the emotional reward, reduces loss, and leverages cognitive flexibilityPress play for help to identify one habit you’d like to change and make it possible.Note: The Habit Hub for Autoimmune Health is now Autoimmune Health Secrets—same mission to help you feel better and function better using habits that are enjoyable, effective, and (together we make them) inevitable.New episodes every Tuesday and Friday.Menu of support options to work with me HERE.Free quiz HERE.Join the Consistency Challenge HERE.Personalized Energy Audit HERE.Explore CLUB Habit Hub HERE. Sign-up for emails HERE.Book your 1-on-1 call HERE.Privacy Policy, T&C, Medical Disclaimer.This podcast explores health & wellness with autoimmune disease—multiple sclerosis (MS) and others—how challenges like fatigue, brain fog, flares, & symptoms related to the nervous system, inflammation, & mitochondria can be supported by healthy habits in food, movement, sleep, and rest, while fostering consistency, self-care, & a resilient mindset. If you’ve read Atomic Habits by James Clear and still don’t have the healthy habits you want, this show is for you. Adjacent to functional medicine, holistic health, AIP diet, and the Wahls Protocol, this is guidance from a health and wellness coach to help those navigating chronic illness feel better and thrive.
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Send us Fan Mail Do you ever try to quit something you love—only to find yourself missing something and wanting to dive right back in? What if instead of giving up entirely, you learned how to keep the essence — the part of the habit you really enjoy — and transform it into something healthier? In this episode, I'll introduce you to a powerful strategy to help you shift gently away from habits that aren’t serving you, while preserving the feeling, sensory element, or ritual that gives it mean...
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#111 | Rewriting Hard To Break Habits By "Keeping Just The Essence" While Still Moving Towards Autoimmune Health
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