Brains generalize in order to make sense of the world in the most predictive, efficient way possible. And while there are a lot of necessary benefits of this, there are some drawbacks too. We lose some nuance and fluidity when we’re hanging out in a highly generalized view of things. Our experience tends to be
Me and Dr. Bob Solomon are major geeks for helping people be themselves again. From the time we’re babies, we’re taught how to be. Don’t cry. Be a good girl or a good boy. Say please. Be grateful. Do the right thing. This is the beginning of us being led away from what feels right to
I view anxiety as a habit. (To be fair, I view most things–including personality, identity, and moods–as habits too).People who struggle with anxiety ask me about this all the time. They say “I can see how nail biting or binge eating or drinking is a habit. But how is anxiety a habit?”“Where’s the habit in
Maria Brigantino helps people become free of eating issues because she’s been there herself. In this episode, we talk about how Maria went through anorexia, bulimia, obsession with her weight, and early trauma to where she is today–feeling grateful for these struggles and the deep peace they revealed to her. She shares how relief from her
My friends Sarah and Anthony have a wonderful webinar series called Beautiful Feelings Within where they share the New Paradigm. They’d done several webinars with the two of them, and some with guests. A few webinars in, someone who was unfamiliar with this understanding but had been listening along asked, “What is this that we’re
Joy Elohim is a Change Coach who works with people around grief. Although that might sound depressing, it’s not at all depressing for Joy. She loves it, because grief isn’t depressing to Joy. Grief is a beautiful expression of love and life. I love how Joy describes the aliveness in grief. The way that everything is
Have you noticed how people often qualify what they want with their “terms”? They want to be happy, or have a nice relationship, or have fulfilling work, but only “on their terms”. It has to show up a certain way–a way that our mind surely made up–in order for it to be okay.“On my terms”
Dorothy had been working with individuals and organizations to help them manage stress and avoid burnout for many years. Then, stress and burnout hit her. Hard. She went through a period of time when she would wake up completely exhausted. She hated to be awake. Stress, exhaustion, and hopelessness were her new norm. Then, she came
Your brain is a fancy computer, always making predictions in order to keep you physically alive. To support its prediction making, it makes up causal models to try to explain how life works. If this, then that. If x, then y.Which is fine, except those causal models aren’t accurate. And we often take them as
Matt Dixon of Purple Patch Fitness coaches athletes, business leaders, and others to their absolute highest level of performance. Like all competitors, Matt loves winning. But his coaching is not about that. It’s about taking people on a journey where they get to wake up to what’s possible for them, which impacts every aspect of
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