y the middle of January Ashley was feeling low. She made an appoint- ment with her counselor for help in dealing with the depression that gripped her. Carol, her therapist, asked if Ashley knew why she was depressed. “I just don’t have any willpower,” Ashley replied. “This is about the third year in a row I’ve resolved to lose weight and every time within two weeks I just start gorging myself like it’s my last meal. I think I’ve gained five pounds. Why don’t I have enough willpower to follow through with my resolutions?”
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“It’s odd that you would say that,” Carol responded. “You are a professional person. You keep yourself very well groomed. You’re always on time. You’ve told me that people respect your work ethic and they trust you to fulfill your ob- ligations. It sounds to me as if you have plenty of willpower. Maybe that’s not the problem.” Perplexed, Ashley asked, “Well what else could it be?” “Let’s ask the question another way,” Carol replied, “why do you keep making a resolution that clearly isn’t important
enough for you to keep?” “What? Of course it is important to
me! It’s very important.” Carol shrugged. “Okay. What makes losing weight so important?” Ashley began to describe her long- time efforts to lose weight. Carol respond- ed by asking why she thought she needed to lose weight. Before long the conversa- tion shifted to Ashley’s mother and their annual holiday conversation about the extra pounds her mother thought she should lose, always saying, “It would be good for your health, and you’d look so
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