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Category: Emotional Suffering
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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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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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We Think We Want Action But What We’re Craving is Momentum
“When we’re stuck in inaction, we think what we most desire is to start taking action. But what we truly desire is to be in momentum.” This powerful insight formed the foundation of a recent game of MotiQuotomy, where ChatGPT and I took this quote and dissected it to uncover as many learnings as possible.…
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From Self-Judgment to Self-Trust: The Role of Grace and Compassion in Meaningful Change
In a world where personal growth is often seen as a race toward perfection, many of us find ourselves battling two voices—one that pushes us to keep going, and another that urges us to ease up. Amidst this struggle, we can sometimes face compassion fatigue—feeling like we’ve become “too soft” on ourselves or others. But…
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Ep. 75 | Falling In Love With Effort Again After Burnout
In this episode, we shed light on a very real but little talked about struggle of those suffering from burnout: the challenge of embracing effort again after burnout. For many, words like “effort” or “hard work” trigger resistance. But what if effort could energize you instead of draining you? When we redefine effort as lively, healthy,…
