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Category: Emotional Awareness
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Resistance Isn’t Laziness, It’s Energy-Guarding: Understanding Analysis Paralysis Through a First-Principles Lens
Resistance is the nervous system’s desire to conserve energy due to lack of hope that expending energy is going to net a reward.
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When Knowledge-Seeking Becomes Your Emotional Regulation Tool
Awareness without support, tools, or scaffolding for new ways to move forward can add to distress. The brain can only hold so much awareness and knowledge before it starts collapsing under the weight of everything you’re trying to hold.
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Ep. 102 | Casey Stillwagon: Ultrarunner, Teacher, Mental Health Advocate Behind @Run5555km and #StrongerEveryStride
Help ultrarunner, Casey Stillwagon raise awareness for mental health, suicide prevention, and the importance of extending grace and compassion to others but also ourselves — by setting your own 5,555 km goal (3,472 miles) and tagging @Run5555km on Instagram and using the hashtags #StrongerEveryStride and #Run5555km.
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Why Ultrarunner Casey Stillwagon’s Stronger Every Stride Inspired Me to Try Running Again – This Time From a Different Mindset
Where can you shift from “I have to” to “I get to”? What pain are you willing to choose—because something within you knows it’s the path to your next level?
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Building Momentum with a Sufficiency Mindset: Tackling Procrastination, One Step at a Time
In our last post, we explored Dr. Russell Ramsay’s “Touching the Task” approach—a powerful tool for initiating action by physically engaging with a task, even in the smallest of ways. But what about when the root of procrastination isn’t just about not wanting to start—it’s the fear that you lack the capacity to begin and…
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Dr. Ramsay’s ‘Touch the Task’ Method To Overcome Procrastination
“Touching the task,” a strategy coined by ADHD expert Dr. Russell Ramsay, helps combat procrastination by focusing on small, physical actions rather than mental negotiation.
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First, Let’s Not Make Things Worse: A Practical Guide to Staying Grounded in Tough Moments
Feeling overwhelmed or stressed? Author Jon Acuff’s advice—“First, let’s not make things worse”—offers a refreshing, practical approach for handling life’s challenges with humor, clarity, and emotional steadiness. Learn how this simple mindset shift, along with the grounding cue “Steady,” can help you respond with intention, anchor yourself in calm, and navigate both everyday frustrations and…
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Take Mental Snapshots of Your Daily Life – Catch Yourself in Action
Reclaim your time and live intentionally with the Snapshot Exercise—a radical act of self-kindness to bring your goals into focus, redirect your day, and stop letting time slip away. Implement this simple tool today to start course-correcting in real-time.
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Embracing Both the Struggler and the Warrior: The Key to a Growth Mindset
How do you keep going when you don’t feel confident? This reflection explores balancing self-doubt and belief, embracing both vulnerability and strength to help you keep moving forward.
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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It: Wisdom from Peter Drucker
We all want a better future—a life where we feel fulfilled, successful, and aligned with our true goals. But more often than not, we get stuck. Whether it’s staying in a job we no longer love, procrastinating on starting a new business, or holding back on a personal project, our brain tends to resist anything…
