For when you're stuck, but not actually confused
You know that foggy, itchy kind of stuck that makes you rewrite your to-do list seventeen times and still feel like you’re getting nowhere?
Yea. That one.
That’s what this week’s episode is about—but not in the “just push through” way people love to shout about. This is about the real kind of stuck. The kind that feels like your brain is buffering and your gut is trying to whisper something you’re not quite ready to hear.
For a long time, I thought that feeling meant I needed to try harder, think more clearly, get more strategic.
But lately? I’ve been wondering if maybe “stuck” isn’t confusion.
Maybe it’s fear dressed up in indecision.
Maybe it’s your body saying, “Hey, we know the answer… we’re just not ready to pay the cost of acting on it yet.”
And that hit me like a brick.
Because I’ve known the truth so many times—about a job, a person, a path I was on—and still avoided doing anything about it. Not because I didn’t know. But because I didn’t feel safe to trust that knowing.
Clarity isn’t always comforting. Sometimes, it’s brutal.
Sometimes it means ending something that still has good moments.
Sometimes it means disappointing people you love.
Sometimes it means finally admitting something to yourself that you’ve been trying to outrun.
And we don’t talk enough about how griefy that in-between space feels.
That’s what I wanted to make space for in this episode—not advice, not answers, but a mirror.
A moment to pause together and say: “Hey, if you feel like you’re circling the same thought over and over again, you’re not crazy. You’re not broken. You might just be on the edge of your own becoming.”
We tell ourselves we don’t know what we want, when really we’re terrified of what will happen if we admit we do.
Because admitting it would mean…
Saying no
Choosing ourselves
Risking being misunderstood
Taking one small brave step in the direction of something different
So what if we stop making clarity the goal?
And start practicing self-trust instead?
That’s where this whole Brave Thing framework came from.
Because I was tired of trying to think my way into certainty.
And I needed something that brought me back into my body.
Something small. Real. Grounding.
Three questions. Two breaths. One brave thing.
No magic solution. Just movement.
If any of this hits, I think you’ll love this week’s episode:
Thoughts on Feeling Stuck & How to Trust Your Gut — it’s honest, layered, and full of those “oh shit, me too” moments.
🎧 Listen to the episode here, Apple, or Spotify
📲 Back Pocket Pep-Talks are here too — for the moments when your nervous system is screaming and you just need a voice in your ear that actually gets it.
And hey—if you’re in that messy middle right now, I’m proud of you.
Stuck isn’t a failure. It’s a threshold.
And if you’re standing at one? That’s brave as hell.
to the brave thing,
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