Insights & Research

    Evidence-based insights on coaching effectiveness and behavioral change.

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    The lump in the throat is not a figure of speech

    Where a feeling lives in the body, and why the brain is the one putting it there

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    Stress shortens how far ahead you can see

    The version of you that exists next month, and why she gets harder to plan for under load

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    The social tax of a short night

    Why the day after a bad night, other people seem to read as harder

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    The 11pm hunger that isn't really about food

    One hormone signals both sleep pressure and appetite, and a short night raises it

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    A feeling is information, not noise

    The research says emotions are structured, differentiated signals, not undifferentiated static

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    The loop that keeps the light on

    Why a depleted evening reaches for the phone, and why that costs the next one

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