Watching someone you love struggle with a habit that's hurting them is genuinely hard. The instinct is to fix it, but that's almost never what helps.

Amanda, Joyce, and Jess Gordon get into the psychology of supporting someone else's health goals, especially when that person isn't ready yet. They talk about why "have you heard the good word about protein" tends to backfire, why the people closest to you hear your concern as "I want you to be different," and the difference between someone who's asked for help and someone you're trying to change before they're ready.

Plus why information is almost never the missing piece, why people don't drop a habit until they're getting nothing out of it anymore, the stages of change worth understanding, and the one question to ask yourself before you say anything: am truly I helping them, or just trying to relieve my own discomfort?

Problem-solving has many layers. You’re here and I’m here because we have a problem that we’ve yet to solve on our own. We’re here because we need help. There’s nothing wrong with needing help. Everyone needs help with something in their lives at some point. As you start to outline the things you need or the actions you need to take to solve a problem, it may take a bit to get going. But at some point, it starts to build like a classic cartoon snowball rolling down a hill. Here is a sample list of things or actions you’ve likely done as you started your journey with BIN to solve this problem.