8: How to make friends with exercise and alter your perspective for good with Dr Paula Watson

Paula is an experienced BPS Chartered Psychologist with 18 years’ experience of developing and delivering health behaviour change interventions.  Paula’s vast experience of working with different people to build exercise as a long lasting habit has created a wealth of effective tricks, tools and techniques which she discusses in this podcast.  So many of us find it virtually impossible to create a true exercise habit and instead find ourselves on a rollercoaster of exercise and then inactivity across the months and years.  Paula helps us to understand how our minds can get in the way of movement and how past experiences, perceptions and expectations play such a significant role in our relationship with our bodies and physical movement.  If you are someone who has struggled to get into an exercise habit and find a way to move that fits with your lifestyle then listen to this podcast to find out how to make exercise ‘stick’