The Self-Trust Project

047. Pain Isn’t the Problem, Your Resistance To It Is


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🔹 What You’ll Learn:

  • Why avoidance strengthens your emotions

    • Accepting feelings as they are weakens their grip.

    • Trying to escape them only keeps the cycle going.

  • How uncertainty triggers your brain’s threat response

    • Your brain treats the unknown as danger.

    • Training yourself to tolerate uncertainty can create new possibilities.

  • Why your choices—not your feelings—define who you are

    • You can feel fear and still act with intention.

    • What you do matters more than what you feel.

  • How to build evidence against unhelpful mental stories

    • Small actions > overthinking.

    • You don’t need to “prove” your thoughts wrong—just act differently.

  • Discomfort is required for new results

    • Familiar actions bring familiar outcomes.

    • New actions = uncertainty = growth.

  • You don’t need all the answers to move forward

    • Overplanning creates more anxiety.

    • Taking the next step—even without clarity—builds self-trust.

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The Self-Trust ProjectBy Bradley Rausch