The evening habit
You've eaten well all day. Then you're tired, the day is finally yours, and the food you'd planned to leave alone starts to feel like a reward.
Practical coaching with Jamie Paquin
You know what you want. Let's make it easier to act on it.
I'm Jamie Paquin. I work with people who want to feel better in their bodies, speak more honestly, or follow through on something that matters to them.
If good intentions keep giving way to the same old response, we can look at what happens in that moment and work out how you'd like it to go differently.
Talk with me for 15 minutesFind your starting point
A free consultation. No obligation to begin coaching.
Does any of this sound familiar?
It's often one small moment that keeps repeating.
The unsaid thing
You have a view worth expressing. You soften it, change the subject or say nothing. Later, you're still having the conversation in your head.
The postponed step
You know what the next step is. You find another reason to wait, and something you care about stays on the list for another week.
You don't have to know why it happens before we talk. A recent example gives us somewhere useful to begin.
Where I focus
What would you like to become easier?
Health & lifestyle
Build habits you're happy to live with.
You may want more energy, greater strength or a more comfortable relationship with your daily choices. We look at the habits, rewards and competing priorities that make following through difficult.
Honest communication
Say what matters with clarity and respect.
Perhaps you avoid disagreement, over-explain or agree to things you don't want. We explore what you're afraid might happen and prepare ways to speak that you can stand behind.
Why this work matters to me
I've had habits that made no sense to me, too.
For years, I took my health seriously and still spent evenings eating chips and ice cream. Making rules could contain the habit for a while. It didn't change how much I wanted the reward.
What eventually changed was what those foods meant to me. That experience made a question I'd studied academically feel very personal: how do we change a response once we understand it?
My work brings together that curiosity, my studies of identity and behaviour, and the practical lessons of building a business in Japan.
Working together
A useful conversation should lead somewhere.
01
Get specific about what you want.
What would you be doing, saying or experiencing differently in everyday life?
02
Look closely at what happens now.
We explore a real situation, including what you expect, feel and do when the familiar response takes over.
03
Try a different response and learn from it.
We prepare for the moments that matter, then use what happens between sessions to refine the work.
Start with a conversation
Tell me about the thing that keeps happening.
A free 15-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk about what you'd like to change and whether working together makes sense. You don't need a polished explanation.
Pattern Shift offers coaching and educational guidance. It does not provide medical treatment, psychotherapy or crisis services.