Ever had one of these? After a big event, a risk taken, a tough conversation or being in front of a group. You get a sort of fragile, sad, hyper-sensitive feeling in the hours or days afterwards that's difficult to place. Here's what could be going on.

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It's another lesson I'm doomed to learn over and over again, or people like me. This week it's seeing things as either wholly bad/wrong or wholly good/right, with no room for the colourful nuance in between. Because that's where the richness of life is. And things are rarely either/or. Life is full of paradox, two seemingly opposing truths both being equally valid - like I'm excited AND I'm scared. That didn't go to plan, AND people loved it.

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A quick reflection on how last night's play session at Leeds Improv Co-Lab went. It was all about feeling into the here-and-now, and noticing who's right alongside us. Basically feeling safe and comfortable enough to have a jolly nice time. This is a stepping stone towards offering a more immersive, day-long workshop all about this thing I care about and have struggled with myself sometimes - not just in improv, in everyday life too. Maybe you can relate, even if you've never improvised? Being all up in your head, panicky, zoned out or distracted and overthinking things. The scourge of this modern age.

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I'd never heard of this improv principle until a recent workshop. Here I'm puzzling how it might help when it comes to uncertainty, and being vulnerable about what we don't know in the face of new challenges.

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A quick explanation and apology for why you might have noticed guests appearing in episodes, when you thought it was just you and I playing here.

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Two (mis)adventures in stand-up comedy for you here: what, how and why it went disastrously wrong for me. But also what, how and why it goes really well. Juicy learnz here for anyone who performs or speaks in public, or just wants to be more open and available with family, friends and colleagues.

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Marianne Powell and I play with authenticity - really being you in the here-and-now. To me this seems to have become one of those highly-desired, yet elusive states like happiness - the more we chase it, the harder it is to feel. What even is it though? How does it happen and why does it matter? Marianne is my friend, a purpose guide and therapist, as well as a singer songwriter.

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When you get going it's really hard to stop, especially on focused tasks you enjoy. For me it's DIY. And the lesson I'm doomed to repeat here is not stopping and putting healthy boundaries on what enough looks like. I didn't get much sleep last night because of all yesterday's doing.

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Just running an idea by you, if that's ok? I'm cooking up a new product - a special workshop to help you enjoy the here-and-now more. It'll be lots of fun. Just wondering how it lands and if you want to be a part of this. Find out more at chriskenworthy.co.uk/authentic-improv/

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Another lesson some of us are doomed to learn over and over again. This time it's about procrastinating, avoiding doing or otherwise being perennially indecisive about that thing you keep putting off. And how we keep forgetting how satisfying and easy (or at least nowhere-near-as-hard as you feared it would be), it was once you've done it.

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