Motivation Beyond Measure Blog
Overcoming Fear of Change Through Somatic Coaching
Why is it so hard to make a significant life change? Most people fear change. We fear that if we make a change, it will be for the worse. The unknown territory is ahead of us, and our brains can’t process that on a conscious level. This is one of the reasons why we...
3 Alternatives to EMDR Therapy for Helping People Heal Trauma
EMDR therapy is getting a lot of press right now, and for good reasons: it works incredibly well for the treatment of trauma. Experts tell us that 70-90% of people have experienced significant trauma, with 8-20% of those people...
How to focus on Embodied Leadership to Help Others Overcome Resistance
Do you want to be a better leader? Leaders, coaches, and therapists often get stuck and frustrated by their clients’ resistance to engage and take action, which can happen in the absence of embodied leadership. When experiencing a coaching client who is resistant to...
A somatic approach to filling your program that doesn’t require a marketing strategy
At some point, every entrepreneur struggles with filling their program. Obviously, as evidenced by the droves of ads… there are a million ways to go about it. And still, entrepreneurs try one marketing strategy after another, sometimes with little or no results. When...
Employee Mental Wellness Programs: Good, Better, and Best Practices
What is the absolute best way to reduce non-productive stress at work and promote sustainable mental wellness? This question was at the heart of our most recent MBM forum, where we met with both organizational leaders and wellness professionals. When I asked these...
3 Reasons Why Employee Stress Management Programs Don’t Work
There’s no doubt about it that employees, leaders, managers, and even our Zoom video conferencing systems are feeling STRESSED! Over a year ago, we never could have predicted the state that we’d be in now; and even if we did, I wonder if we would have done anything...
Best Practices for Measuring Employee Stress in the Workplace
In our most recent Motivation Beyond Measure Forum we met with both forward thinking organizational leaders and outside consultants to talk about Best Practices for Measuring the Stress Levels of Employees. Coming into the forum our assumption was that leaders and...
The Solution: Burnout
People are burned out in record numbers and 89% of people say their work-life is getting worse according to a recent article by the Harvard Business Review. The impact of stress and employee mental wellness is no longer a luxury; it’s critical to our economy. So where...
The Employee Mental Wellness Crisis Is Here
It’s no secret that the COVID pandemic has, and continues to take its toll on nearly every facet of our lives. Pervasive social inequities, childcare, and homeschooling demands are just a few of the things that have created even greater pressure on our already...
Tuning The Body
We are 1 of only 4 providers in the US certified to use the research-backed tool, Motivational Maps