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Stop Self-Sabotage: A Neuroscience Guide to Confidence
Understand Task vs. Default Mode, retrain the salience switch, and shut down the inner critic with a simple daily truth audit.
Self-sabotage doesn't look like laziness it looks like a noisy Default Mode Network replaying old mistakes until they feel like identity. In this episode, Carl Gregory, an advanced certified clinical trauma specialist and neuropsychotherapy-trained practitioner, breaks down the brain's three key players: the Task-Positive Network (your execution system), the Default Mode Network (your wandering narrator), and the Salience Network (the switchboard that decides what gets your attention). You'll learn how the inner critic hijacks the DMN, why the salience switch jams under stress and distraction, and how to put Task Brain back in charge fast.
No fluff. No therapy-speak. Carl gives you a field-tested tool: a one-page daily Truth Audit. Write the lie, write the evidence-based truth, and retrain your salience network to stop prioritizing garbage thoughts. Expect clear distinctions, real-life scenarios (promotion anxiety, parenting guilt), and practical checkpoints to spot when you're drifting into rumination versus executing.
This isn't therapy or a substitute for it. If you're in crisis, call 988 (U.S.). Learn more, grab the 30-day Cage Series journals, and find trainings at carlhgregory.com.
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By The Architect of Self™Understand Task vs. Default Mode, retrain the salience switch, and shut down the inner critic with a simple daily truth audit.
Self-sabotage doesn't look like laziness it looks like a noisy Default Mode Network replaying old mistakes until they feel like identity. In this episode, Carl Gregory, an advanced certified clinical trauma specialist and neuropsychotherapy-trained practitioner, breaks down the brain's three key players: the Task-Positive Network (your execution system), the Default Mode Network (your wandering narrator), and the Salience Network (the switchboard that decides what gets your attention). You'll learn how the inner critic hijacks the DMN, why the salience switch jams under stress and distraction, and how to put Task Brain back in charge fast.
No fluff. No therapy-speak. Carl gives you a field-tested tool: a one-page daily Truth Audit. Write the lie, write the evidence-based truth, and retrain your salience network to stop prioritizing garbage thoughts. Expect clear distinctions, real-life scenarios (promotion anxiety, parenting guilt), and practical checkpoints to spot when you're drifting into rumination versus executing.
This isn't therapy or a substitute for it. If you're in crisis, call 988 (U.S.). Learn more, grab the 30-day Cage Series journals, and find trainings at carlhgregory.com.