OM DENNE EPISODE
Why am I still stuck, even after years of doing "the work"? If you've read the books, journaled about the same anxiety at midnight more times than you can count, and had the breakthrough on a walk or mid-session with a practitioner — and you're still landing in the exact same place — this episode is for you.
In this episode of The Emotional Truth, I walk through the five most common mistakes I see keeping smart, self-aware women stuck despite doing everything right. This isn't about self-sabotage in the way it usually gets talked about, and it isn't about willpower. It's about which strategies actually reach the root of what's running underneath, versus which ones just make you feel like you're making progress while the same thing keeps repeating.
I break down:
- Why trying to think your way out of it keeps you circling instead of shifting — and why insight is not the same thing as integration
- Why waiting for a crisis before you act keeps you working from behind instead of ahead
- Why techniques like breathwork and bodywork give you real relief but not full resolution, and what nervous system regulation actually requires beyond a single technique
- Why rushing to assign a cause or meaning to what you're feeling, before it's even finished moving through you, can cut the actual processing short
- Why hopping from program to program without ever sitting with yourself first drowns out your own inner knowing
If you've been asking yourself why am I still stuck after years of self-help, therapy, or coaching, this episode shows you exactly where the disconnect is happening. It's not a personal failing. It's a mismatch between the tool you were using and the problem you were trying to solve — and once you can see that clearly, it changes what you reach for next.
This episode builds directly on two recent ones — episode 37, "Why Am I Still Triggered After Years of Therapy," and episode 38, "Why Doesn't Self-Awareness Fix Anything." If this one lands, go back and listen to those next; they dig even deeper into why knowing isn't the same as shifting.
If this resonated, the Intuitive Circle is where we do this work live, twice a month, in real time, body-based and specific to what's actually running for you. Doors are open right now — grab your spot at lesleyturner.ca/theintuitivecircle.
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Hey, are you someone who's read a stack of self-help books?
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You've journaled about the same anxiety at midnight more times than you could count.
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Maybe you've even had one of those breakthroughs.
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You were on a walk or in the shower or mid-session with your somatic practitioner, where something clicks and you think, okay, this is it.
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This is t…
