For millions of years, it was useful in certain contexts to confirm your anxiety. This very much overlaps with a lot of what i say when it comes to biases and fallacies,. Heristics and things that these area, confirmation bias being the one that most people are familiar with. And we call it confirmation. By us, ind its very intellectual and very abstract. But in the context in which it evolved., It's totally adaptive.
Feeling stuck? Can't build momentum to escape all the loops keeping you from moving forward? Our guest in this episode is professor, author, therapist, and speaker Britt Frank, a trauma specialist who treats people with a unique and powerful set of techniques and approaches which, taken together, helps clients to get out of the feeling of being STUCK.
In the show, we nerd out with Britt about how hard it is to be a person, and though this interview is supposed to be about her new book - "The Science of Stuck, Breaking Through Inertia to Find your Path Forward - at least of half of this interview turned out to be was wide-ranging conversation chasing down many nested tangents about everything from procrastination to somatic markers to trauma to the multitudes of the self and more.
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