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Your Body, Reframed

Featuring: Jacquelyn B. Fletcher

You're working out and eating right, and — hurrah! — your body is changing for the better. But is your brain on board with the look and feel of the new-and-improved you? Sometimes even a relatively subtle change in our weight or level of fitness is enough to trigger subconscious discomfort. When our engrained body image and self-perception suddenly don't sync with our physical reality, that sense of discrepancy may send us into an unconscious backslide — without our even realizing what's happening.

In this episode of Get a Whole Life, Pilar talks with friend and fellow journalist Jacquelyn B. Fletcher about how the mental and emotional "frames" we have can interfere with the physical reality we're working so hard to create. Jacque, a writer, editor, author and instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, once weight 100 pounds more than she does now. She has has written numerous real-person transformational profiles for Experience Life's popular Success Stories department.

Jacque and Pilar share insights from their own experiences, and also explore the "framing" suggestions from Michael Hall, PhD, a cognitive psychologist and neurosemantics expert who was a key source for Experience Life's recent article "Your Body, Reframed." Hall is also the author of several books, including Games Slim and Fit People Play and Secrets of Personal Mastery.

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