Tamsin Astor, PhD is the Chief Habit Scientist and founder of Yoga Brained Coaching. She helps her clients shift their mindset, organize their vision, and improve their habits. We make 35,000 decisions every day, leading to decision fatigue. Dr. Astor helps her clients reduce the decisions by harnessing their brains. This also increases their time and energy for fun! Dr. Astor connects multiple certifications (PhD in neuroscience, Yoga, Ayurveda & Coaching) to support her clients and motivate and inspire others in her workshops and keynotes. Dr. Astor is an avid traveler and foodie taking her kids to Brazil, and Japan.
Columnist: Tamsin Astor
What Are You Focusing On? Two Key Areas to Consider
Our brains are amazing. However, they evolved to track what’s not working so we can keep ourselves safe by focusing on what we are doing wrong, what we are not getting right, where we have missed the mark. This evolutionary mechanism is fantastic when you are scanning for sabre-tooth tigers, but in reality, the majority […]
Are You In Coherence, or Are You Incoherent?
Do you ever find yourself in a position where you don’t understand why you keep getting the same-old-same-old-same-old cr*p? You keep getting the same results again and again, no matter what you seem to do? Perhaps it’s because you are stuck in the psychocybernetic loop. I know, I know, you are probably thinking that sounds […]
Navigating Uncertainty & Ambiguous Loss
Uncertainty is massively de-stabilizing to the nervous system. Us humans like predictability – which is why we like to categorize people, by their job, marital status, ethnicity, city of birth, political party affiliation, gender etc. The last few months have been hugely unstable. When we don’t have reasonable expectations of what is going to happen […]
3 Tips to Navigate Supporting Your Team as a Leader
Times are incredibly charged. It feels like there is a tectonic shift in the universe. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” ― Cynthia Occelli Recent […]
How to Show up as a Leader on Zoom
While I cleaned my kitchen and drank a gin and tonic at 8:30pm last night, I was listening to a CreativeLive training session about confidence. The presenter said “I bet” in response to someone’s comment. She then interrupted the speaker to clarify that she meant it in an affirmative way, as in “yes, I hear […]
How to Be Successful When You’re Working From Home
Before the pandemic, 43% of Americans worked from home some or part of the time. Perhaps you will continue, or this is a new normal for you and you need help. Either way, I am here to help with ideas for routines and boundaries! Routines Routines are a series of habits. These routines, when automated, […]