The Importance of Knowing Your Brain

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Mental health has very little to do with your mind and much to do with what your autonomic nervous system is doing or not doing in response to the environment. Often what we call pathology are our brains doing exactly what the brains were designed to do. That doesn't mean you should be resigned to it, but it does help to know, Hey, your brain's doing what a brain supposed to do,. which is conserve energy; try to get to autopilot.

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 unique and powerful techniques and approaches which help 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.
Bringing together research-backed solutions that range from shadow work to reparenting, embodied healing, and other clinical practices, along with empowering personal stories, this book is a hands-on road map for moving forward with purpose, confidence, and the freedom to become who you’re truly meant to be.

Britt Frank’s Practice

How Minds Change

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The Science of Stuck Website

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