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Is Your Personality Type Making You Fat?

Is Your Personality Type Making You Fat?
Because we’re human, we ask questions. When it comes to being overweight, there are many questions such as: “Why am I overweight?  “When did it actually happen?”  “What can I do to lose the weight?”  And if you’ve already tried to lose weight and haven’t succeeded in keeping it off...

Losing Weight with Ikigai

Losing Weight with Ikigai
Seeing that it is the beginning of the year, I thought it was a good time for us all to think about what we want to see for ourselves in 2022.  No question, I’m sure, that everyone wants to get back to a more normal life.  The COVID virus won too many battles last year.  And, of course, if you’re...

Putting the Brakes on Fast Thinking with the MBTI®

Putting the Brakes on Fast Thinking with the MBTI®
After reading Daniel Kahneman’s latest book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, I saw how clearly his work regarding fast thinking and slow thinking aligns with personality typing based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®).  As a dietitian and practitioner of the MBTI®, I’ve always wanted...

Personality Type and COVID

Personality Type and COVID
Those familiar with the MBTI® (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) will recognize that, of the various preferences that make up personality typing, Sensing and iNtuiting are probably having the most influence on how people are dealing with the COVID virus. To quickly find out if you have Sensing or iNtuiting...

Intuitive versus Instinctive

Intuitive versus Instinctive
What do these words have in common?  The definition of “Intuitive” is what one feels to be true, without the need for conscious reasoning.  On the other hand, being “Instinctive” is doing something automatically. What these have in common is the concept that no thought is necessary....