If we soften the conversation and soften the style with which we spoke to people,

we observed quite remarkable change, not like this is a magic bullet or something very mysterious,

but compared to what we'd been through, life felt a lot easier.

And in essence, motivational interviewing is this, instead of trying to adopt a top-down position

and persuade, encourage, inform, advise, convince someone to change.

You come alongside them and help them work this out for themselves.

Hello and welcome to Pursuing Health.

I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

and support your journey toward your health yourself.

This episode is a replay of a monthly webinar I hosted on behalf of CrossFit Health

with Dr. Steven Rollnick, who's a pioneer in the field of motivational interviewing

and has spent much of his career researching and developing effective methods

for helping people resolve difficult behavior change.

I first read his book Motivational Interviewing and Healthcare

when I was in medical school.

And this was a technique I learned to use heavily during my medical training.

So I was very excited to be able to share a conversation with Dr. Rollnick on the webinar

and I hope you enjoy as well.

You can join us live for next month's webinar on April 22nd at 6 p.m. Eastern 3 p.m. Pacific time

with Dr. Alessio Visano on gluten and the microbiome.

Keep an eye out in the CrossFit email of the day and on CrossFit.com for registration details.

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