Paul Dermody
Coach and author addressing mindset barriers, shame, and sustainable change for health and business performance.
Break Free: Stop Letting Plastic Define Your Worth
Struggling with emotional eating? You don't need another peptalk on why its just carbs, sodium or water. You've heard it before. You need to stop letting a €15 piece of plastic dictate your self-worth, mood and eating habits. It's never too late to challenge your own beliefs. When something no longer triggers you, it loses the power to change your behaviour. You can do better than this. I promise 👊
Detach From Outcomes, Embrace Incremental Progress Through Tiny Steps
It's sounds counterintuitive, but become unattached to the outcome. Become OK with it not happening. Then you're free to experiment. Do the next thing well. Transformation is just the hundreds of tiny steps. Yet a lot can happen during one...
Weight Loss Fails Stem From Hidden Fears, Not Food
Want to go deeper into this? My book FULL is all about the fears and obstacles that stand in our way. 90% of people who hire me for weight loss don't have a food problem. They have a fear underneath "I fear...
Seeking Life‑Changing Quotes for My Next Book
I'm getting an urge to write a second book. One thing I've done for years is try to collect wisdom. From books. From people. From my own mistakes. I hear them. I remember them. I try to live them. What sentence or insight...
Question Your Food Beliefs to Unlock True Freedom
1. Spot the cycle. 2. Name the cycle. 3. Question the source: who taught me this? Who taught me self-worth came with conditions? When did I learn I couldn't trust myself around food. 4. Slowly, test the assumption. This is where freedom begins. Because, you...
Great Coaches Prioritize Your Growth Over Their Agenda
An effective coach doesn't need you to be a certain way. They have no agenda. Just your growth. Thats it. They know that if you're too rigid, you'll rebel far too hard in the other direction.
Purpose, Not Pounds, Drives Sustainable Life Change
🤯 The truth about real lasting change. Weight loss is a valid goal, but as a standalone motivation, it seldom lasts. It's just not sturdy enough. They key is a lasting change in how you want to spend the days of...
My 40‑Approach Habits
My Ins and Outs as I sail towards 40. And yes, I genuinely think these are life-changing habits. But every annoying Internet person says that. Up to you to agree, I guess
Shift Motivation From Fear to Safety, Not Calories
Shane interrupts your ability to care for yourself. Because it reinforces the idea that there's something wrong with you. Then, instead of diet or self-help advice benefitting you, it keeps you thinking that you're a problem to fix. If you truly want...
Simple Mind Shifts Transform Emotional Eating Patterns
For all the heavy, emotional eating and psychology topics I talk about, sometimes it really can be this simple. Not in a "get on with it, stupid" kind of way. More in a "I'm ready to train my mind to see things...