Informing an individual to all available options and continuing to personalize the risks of their current behaviors occurs during the contemplation stage of behavioral change.
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At the stage, the place where people understand the problem and seriously think about how to solve it, but have not yet committed to action referred as contemplation. Many people at this stage can be described as ambiguous.
For example: People want to improve their blood sugar levels, but are not yet ready to limit the use of sweets. Prochaska proposed five stages that describes positive changes in people’s succeeding lives. They are:
- Contemplation
- Pre-contemplation
- Preparation
- Action
- Maintenance.
This quote is from Cormac McCarthy's novel "All the Pretty Horses", written in 1992. It tells a story about a 16-years-old John Grady Cole who grew up on a ranch in Texas.
This quote portrays boy's love and passion for horses, but also his loneliness and feeling of abandonment. He made a bond with horses like no other. Horses defined him as a person and he wishes humans could be more like persons. In the previously mentioned citation, he emphasizes the understandment and coherence between the horses, as opposed to the conflicts and misunderstanding that is dominant between people. When he is in the state of dealing with a loss, he finds comfort in horses which he cannot find in people.
1. Person being abused becomes distant from everyone
2. Bruises, or other kinds of marks on the body
In this case, <span>their love is called Empty.
Empty love refers to the type of love which has lost all of the passions but yet the commitment still remains.
Couples often trapped in this type of love because they have somehow grew apart throughout the years but they still decided to stay for the sake of convenience (such as money, kids, etc)
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