Stopping the “Yo Yo” effect…with love

There are few things sadder than people who can only motivate themselves to positive behaviors with pain.

Just a few days ago, a person who had made a massive change in their life had to admit they’d yo-yo’d back to their previous state. It was utterly predictable, and I actually cut off communication with them after tiring of fielding the lies they used to justify a seriously negative world view. They would act from emergency, and then when the emergency was over, like removing tension from a rubber band, they’d snap right back to their prior state, which was…