Getting Out of Procrastination

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This is working really hard at the thing that you're not supposed to be doing. A sympathetic arousal state will get misdiagnosed as ADHD, but always talk to your doctor first and I'm not here to diagnose you. You can't take a deep breath and calm yourself down when you're stuck on up. Your brain wants to go and run and get the hell away from whatever it thinks is happening. This seems way harder. What do you do to get out of this? It's called productive procrastination.

It’s February. It’s that time of year when we start to wonder if we might not follow through with our New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of the year when procrastination becomes a centerpiece of our psychological concerns.

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.

Author of The Science of Stuck, she says, “Procrastination is not a character flaw. Nor is it a sign of weakness. Nor is it a sign of laziness.⁣ Procrastination is an indicator that internal consent has not been given. When our inner parts are distressed, afraid, sad, angry, grief-stricken or anxious, it is important to listen to their concerns, not to shame them or coerce them into action.⁣”

In the show you’ll learn about the physiological origins of procrastination – the inner brake pedal and gas pedal – and what to do to escape the two different versions of this universal challenge to getting unstuck and getting things done.