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# Coaching emotions

## [Coaching Emotions for Better Lifestyle Choices](https://realbalance.com/coaching-emotions-for-better-lifestyle-choices)

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Lifestyle behavioral change is not simply a rational process. Emotions influence or sometimes completely determine the outcome of decisions we are confronted with every day.



***When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.***



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## [The Zone of Compassion: More Thoughts on the Heart of Coaching](https://realbalance.com/the-zone-of-compassion-more-thoughts-on-the-heart-of-coaching)

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**How do we allow ourselves to enter the zone of compassion, and what holds us back from going there?** How do we keep our *“coherent sense of self”* that Erik Erikson talked about intact when we connect with the ‘other’? (Allow me to use the term ‘other’ to refer to a person or persons, clients, or otherwise throughout this piece.).

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