We can all tell our story and it can feel helpful to do so at times. We feel seen and heard, our experience recognized by another person as valid and real-to-us. 

But what seems even more helpful is sharing what’s beneath the story. Going to the simplest, most immediate thing. Something more like how it feels to be us or what’s here right now. 

This week’s episode uses the metaphor of a patient lying in a hospital bed hooked up to machines that start sounding off alarms. The medical team rushes in the room and does what?

Do they go directly to the machines and start pressing buttons, trying to interpret what the alarms mean? Do they discuss those interpretations with each other? 

Or do they go directly to the human in the bed and ask them where it hurts? Do they go to the abstract interpretations or straight to the source? Where do you go? 

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I’m excited to tell you about a new 6-week course coming in May called Resting in Restlessness: The solution to compulsive scrolling, eating, buying, anxiety, and constant seeking.

In this course, we’ll look at that ill-defined, somewhat subtle experience of agitation that keeps us doing and seeking. 

This feeling of restlessness is behind all compulsive behaviors, anxiety, and ability to simply BE without distraction. We’ll explore what it actually is we’re running from and in moving closer to it, see if we really need to keep running. 

Listen to next week’s episode for more details on this course.

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