Mr. Skeptical squints at my title and asks, "That isn’t a real word.”
Annoyed, I glare at him. “I first heard the word from another online coach; it’s a made-up word. But it’s useful.”
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Modern health advice coddles. It offers reassurance instead of results, comfort instead of confrontation. But sometimes, healing starts not with a supplement, a smoothie, or a sauna—but with a mirror. Enter: Carefrontation. A contrived word, sure. But in the war against metabolic decay and modern malaise, it may be the most necessary weapon.
“Sounds like a corporate HR rebrand of an intervention.”
Mr. Skeptical’s cynicism is like insulin resistance: always present, mildly inflammatory, and occasionally helpful.
“Carefrontation means confronting yourself—or a client—not with cruelty, but with care and conviction. It means asking the hard questions, even when they sting more than a shot of turmeric.”
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Imagine our ancestors dragging home a mammoth steak after fasting for 48 hours. No one in the tribe says, “Hey, Grog, you’re enough just as you are.” No—Grog gets told to move faster next time, or starve.
That’s carefrontation. Evolution didn’t reward self-delusion. It rewarded truth, adaptation, and uncomfortable reflection. Studies in evolutionary psychology support the idea that social feedback was often brutally honest because survival depended on performance, not feelings.
Mr. Skeptical sighs, “Do I need to remind you that we aren’t still hunting mammoths, Mr. Caveman.”
Irritated and with my jaw clenched, I add, “Carefrontation will often involve finding a hidden Obesity Spell someone may have.”
“Isn’t that another made-up word?”
“Yes, but it’s something happening often at a subconscious level that a person may not be aware of that is making them gain weight.”
“Give me an example.”
“Someone may feel better after eating a whole bag of potato chips. They may often start things and not finish things, but they can at least finish a bag of potato chips and feel a sense of accomplishment.”
“How do you fix that?”
“To start, they can eat a whole bag of pork rinds cooked in pork fat, which is something I often do. That feeling of accomplishment can be reached, but with a healthier option.”
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Mr. Skeptical crosses his arms. “That was too easy. Give me another example.”
“A client admits to me he went to a friend’s house and just ate all the food served to him. It included some meat but also a big serving of rice and beans.”
“How do you fix that?”
“I ask the client how he could have handled the situation better.”
“You don’t just tell the client what to do?”
“No. I want the client to come with his own solution that he can think up himself or that he’s been taught to do by me beforehand, but forgot to, or didn’t bother doing.”
“Well, how do you get out of that situation without being rude?”
“More often than not, one can serve their own plate, and you can just eat more meat and not serve yourself the rice and beans.”
“But wait, what if someone served the food for you?”
“One can politely say, ‘I’m doing this all-meat carnivore diet for 30 days, so I’m going to skip the rice and beans.”
“But what if you’re still hungry and there’s no more meat?”
“If you follow my advice, you’d have beef sticks, pork rinds, and cheese crisps in the car that you can eat afterwards if you’re still hungry.”
“Still, many would feel awkward rejecting some of the food.”
“Exactly my point. It's awkward, which is why, with some of my clients, we even role-play those scenarios. Sometimes my clients don’t want to role-play, but if I believe they need it, I insist on it, and that’s carefrontation.”
Practical Suggestions and Conclusions
Another everyday example of carefrontation? The ol’ “sweet tooth.”
Some people say it with a giggle, like it’s a quirky character trait.
Something to bond over, like bad knees or Netflix addiction.
Mr. Skeptical smiles, “Well, I can relate. How do you handle that?”
“I remind them it’s not cute—it’s an addiction. You don’t get a cupcake chip for announcing it.”
“Oh, so sugar is the new heroin now?”
“Not new. Just socially acceptable. Alcohol, opioids, heroin—they ruin lives. Sugar just does it more slowly, with a smile.”
“Sounds harsh.”
“It is. That’s why it works. It’s not a roast—it’s carefrontation.”
Be aware.
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