With a little patience and some strategy you can get the support you need from the people you love when making healthy changes.

1. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family and
Friends When Making Healthy Changes
Marissa Vicario, Founder and
Wellness Expert
Marissa’s Well-being and
Health
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2. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
With a little patience and some strategy
you can get the support you need from the
people you love.

3. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
1. Forgive
• The best way to counter negative
reactions to your new lifestyle is to
respond with kindness.
• Negative reactions may be based
on their own fears – perhaps they
have wanted to make similar
changes but don’t know how or
aren’t ready yet.
• Wish them happiness and stay
focused on your own positive
changes.

4. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
2. Give a Little
• Sometimes all it takes for friends
and family to understand your
decisions is to invite them over to
your side – just for a night.
• Offer to have them over for
dinner, organize a pot luck or
invite them to your favorite
healthy restaurant.
• Letting others into your world
gives them a taste of what you’re
up to and shows them that being
healthy can be fun and delicious.

5. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
3. Create New Rituals
• Sometimes new lifestyles
require new friends and
new activities.
• Find friends who share
your beliefs and enjoy
doing the same things you
do – sharing recipes and
health tips and engaging in
healthy activities.

6. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
4. Be Gentle
• Being forceful or militant in your beliefs
doesn’t work.
• Just be you and treat everyone as your equal
wherever they may be on their own journey.
The more those around you see your glow
from the inside out, the more interest they
will take in what you’re all about.

7. 5 Ways to Get Support From Family
and Friends When Making Healthy
Changes
5. Educate and Believe in Yourself
• Know what you’re doing and why you
are doing it and do whatever it takes
to get there.
• Read, work with a coach, take a
class. Determine if and how this
lifestyle will work for you and only
you. The more you know about your
new chosen lifestyle and the more
you believe in yourself, the more
respect you’ll gain.

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