You have seen the image of someone with an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, representing ambivalence. Did you know that this particular metaphor is nearly 2000 years old? My blog post this week looks at the history of ambivalence, and why it's such an important part of the human experience. https://sites.google.com/view/two-minds/blog
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The formal definition of motivational interviewing is "understanding and resolving ambivalence" (not arguing, not changing people, not convincing them, etc.). This week's blog post is part 2 of my series about ambivalence, looking at why it is so strongly tied to people's eventual motivation to make a change: https://sites.google.com/view/two-minds/blog
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