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You can experience genuine joy only to the degree that you understand and accept all parts of yourself. Unaddressed grief, unresolved anger, relational conflict, and unhealthy habits can all contribute to feeling stuck. Decode your brain, develop boundary-setting strategies, and regain your ability to live an authentic life. When you understand the language of stuck, you can quickly find resources.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:34AM
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Rhiannon Bacon
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Trauma is not an illness – it is an injury and it can heal.
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Rhiannon Bacon
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When you start feeling sick...you stay hydrated and rest. You don't think, 'This is just who I am.'
— 21 hours, 6 min ago
Rhiannon Bacon
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The thinking of [the 1500s] also produced a belief that persists to this day—the belief that feeling stuck is due to laziness or lack of motivation. Somehow, despite centuries of progress, laziness continues to be the shaming and judgemental explanation for science-based behavior. Lazy is a moral judgement—not a biological reality.
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CBT is a mind-based solution that uses the power of thoughts to change feelings. Body-based therapies use the power of feelings to change thoughts. We need both.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:24AM
Rhiannon Bacon
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If you never start doing things, you can numb out by fantasizing about "someday" doing things.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:20AM
Rhiannon Bacon
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Depression is often a signal point TO a problem, not the problem itself. Both anxiety and depression are efforts by your brain to protect you from harm.
— Dec 20, 2025 01:28PM
Rhiannon Bacon
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There are no negative emotions. There are uncomfortable and scary emotions, but even our most unpleasant emotions have an important function... Until you believe that getting unstuck will be worth the fear of facing your emotions, you'll continue to stay stuck.
— Dec 20, 2025 01:25PM
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Our brains are wired for survival, not happiness. Our nervous systems are trained to conserve as much energy as possible. Staying stuck is an efficient use of resources when the goal is survival. Staying stuck is problematic when the goal is productivity. Understanding the perks of staying stuck is the first step toward change.
— Dec 17, 2025 10:55AM
Rhiannon Bacon
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Instead of judging your behavior, you need to get curious about it. Curiosity is fuel for the change process. When you can observe your behaviors with curiosity, it's easier to see their benefits. Understanding the function of a behavior is the key to changing it.
— Dec 17, 2025 10:51AM
Rhiannon Bacon
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Don't feel like you have to deal with everything at once. If numbing out safely helps you make it through the day, enabling you to take care of your responsibilities, you're allowed to numb. We all need a numb-out session periodically.
— Dec 15, 2025 07:51AM
