Dr. UnStuck Podcast — Get Out of Your Head. Get Into Your Life.

Jim Stutz joins us for the final episode, "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, and not a life that others expected of me," based on Bronne Ware's book, "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying." Stutz explains that all of these regrets feed into one main theme, which is that at the end of one's life many people find themselves wishing they had lived a more balanced and authentic existence. He explains that the main reason for this self abandonment is fear, which then leads to conformity as a way of "playing it safe." In so doing, we become conditioned to stay within these parameters of external approval, creating a false self that learns to act in order to acquire the good feels from others. The result is among the most tragic losses a human being can experience, the loss of one's self.