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title: Stages of Change - Real Balance Certified Health and Wellness Coach Training
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# Stages of Change

## [Busting Out of Precontemplation: TTM and Wellness Coaching](https://realbalance.com/busting-out-of-precontemplation-ttm-and-wellness-coaching)

![James and Janice Prochaska](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/prochaskas-m.jpg)

James and Janice Prochaska were kind enough to edit the section of my new book ***Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft***[*https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html*](https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html) that conveys how coaches can make use of their model for behavioral change – **The Transtheoretical Model**. I am deeply grateful to them for this. While many coaches are familiar with their work on the…

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## [How Integrating Motivational Interviewing with the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Can Make Your Coaching Better](https://realbalance.com/how-integrating-motivational-interviewing-with-the-transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change-can-make-your-coaching-better)

![How Integrating Motivational Interviewing with the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Can Make Your Coaching Better](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/Bill__Michael.jpeg)

***“In a way, what Motivational Interviewing was thought to do in the beginning was to help people become ready. In the addiction field we were blaming people for not getting better, saying ‘well, come back when you’re ready.’  Well, we don’t do that with cancer.  That’s not good enough.  So, what can you do if a person doesn’t seem to be ready?  Well, that’s***…

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## [Making Resolutions Means You Are Contemplating, Now, to Maintain Them!](https://realbalance.com/resolutions-and-coaching)

![Making Resolutions Means You Are Contemplating, Now, to Maintain Them!](https://realbalance.com/images/800x600/AdobeStock_935168604.jpeg)

 



Our common belief is that resolutions made at the beginning of the New Year usually fail, so why make them?  As James Prochaska was fond of saying, ***intending to change and changing are not the same thing***.  Yet isn’t setting good intentions a good thing?



 



**Setting Intentions**



Setting intentions means you are considering a change.  You…

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