You can have every fact, every plan, and still quit by Thursday, because the story underneath never changed.Dr. Kim Foster, a family physician who practiced for twenty years, sat down with Lewis after a patient with rising blood pressure told her, “I'm just not an exercise person.” That one line reframed everything: behavior change is an identity problem wearing an information costume. Her book, Redesigning You, turns that into a three-step method of recognizing the old story, redesigning it, and then going out to collect proof.She talks about the bridge identity, the small believable stretch your brain will actually accept instead of a mirror affirmation it answers with, “Interesting. Based on what?” Habit stacking is the app. Identity is the operating system, and glitchy apps on an old system crash on the hard days.Then she tells on herself. She walked into the woods behind her clinic after stitching a patient's hand, realized she never wanted to go back, wrote her resignation letter, and then stayed through an entire pandemic wave anyway rather than leave at the worst moment. Her last day came in her birthday month, and she sat in her car and cried for fifteen minutes before driving home with the windows down, free.Listen for the moment a senior resident nodded at her to keep going while ribs cracked under her hands, and for what that taught her about self-doubt. You'll start catching your own identity statement, about money, sleep, confidence, relationships, the ones you say like they're just facts. Then you get to argue back.<a href="https://amzn.to/3SFH5z2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Redesigning You: Change Your Inner Story, Transform Your Health</a><a href="https://drkimfoster.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Kim's Website</a><a href="https://youtube.com/kimfosterMD" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Kim's YouTube</a><a href="https://instagram.com/drkimfoster" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Kim's Instagram</a>In this episode you will:<ul><li>Discover with Dr. Kim Foster why lasting change fails as an identity problem rather than an information problem</li><li>Apply the Recognize, Redesign, Ritualize framework to build an identity your brain actually believes</li><li>Build a bridge identity that gives your mind proof instead of forcing affirmations you secretly reject</li><li>Overcome the fear that keeps you loyal to a role you have outgrown, even a prestigious one</li><li>Reframe self doubt as useful data and stop letting shame drive your attempts to improve</li><li>Become genuinely magnetic in conversation without slipping into performance</li></ul>For more information go to <a href="https://lewishowes.com/1981" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lewishowes.com/1981</a><a href="https://lewishowes.com/more" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">More SOG episodes we think you’ll love!</a>
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