The Queen of the Hot Mess

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"I was a master at the art of self deception," says Ove. "My biggest thing in my early twenties was, i don't know who i am." The idea bipassing pain in order to achieved some zen state of goodness is incredibly appealing to me", writes Ove. 'Cult life affords you somebody to tell you if you do this, think that,' he adds. "'If you have unaddressed trauma and are going to take ownership over it?' That's what cults appeal to us for.' He continues: 'How could anybody get their brain washed from scratch with nothing going on? And how could anybody?"

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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