

#46: Why You Still Feel Stuck Even After Doing 'The Work'
So many high achievers do the “right things.” They read the books. They practice breath work. They follow the morning routines. They “hack” their productivity.
All of these things can make them feel calmer, more in control, and more focused. Until chaos erupts, and you find yourself back in your same-old destructive patterns and emotional loops.
Why does this happen?
Because most personal development is only surface level. And since it’s only surface level, as soon as your deeper parts get triggered, they act in the only way they know how.
In other words, falling back into the same emotional loops is a sign that you haven’t deeply healed your inner system yet.
That’s the bad news.
The worse news?Doing more of the “right things” cannot fix these deeper wounds. In fact, they’ll only make them worse.
But in today’s episode, you’ll discover how you can actually heal these deeper wounds and finally integrate all of your parts into a harmonious inner system.
It’s the only proven way to permanently stop repeating the same destructive patterns.
Listen now.
Show Highlights Include:
- The cold, hard truth about why the personal growth changes you make never last (1:02)
- Carl Jung’s secret for healing your emotional world and actually making it stick (5:04)
- Why making your inner critic shut up actually delays your healing journey (and why listening to it can finally make it stop sabotaging you) (5:32)
- The "Internal War” trap that leads to burnout, rage, and self-destruction (7:52)
- Here’s what you can expect to feel on a daily basis when you fully integrate your parts (14:05)
- How high achievers actually make their work, their relationships, and their life harder (and the only proven way to get out of your own way) (14:55)
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