Almost every bad mood you have traces back to one thing: the feeling that what's happening, or what already happened, shouldn't have. You're probably doing it right now without realizing it. This episode is Laura's Excedrin for the mind — something to keep in the cabinet and come back to whenever you catch yourself in the loop. She breaks down what resistance is actually doing in your brain, why it feels like a perfectly reasonable reaction, and three specific moves for the three different ways it shows up. Save this one. It's built to be replayed.
This episode covers:
- The hidden sentence underneath almost every bad mood
- Why you don't feel like you're resisting anything, and the one test that tells you the truth
- The difference between accepting a thing and accepting that it happened
- What your brain is actually attempting to do when you're frustrated, and why it can never work
- When frustration is a gift, and when it's just burning your energy
- The network in your brain built for replaying the past and rehearsing the future
- A ridiculous game Laura plays in traffic that works every time
- What to do when you can only see 1% of the situation
- The one question that tells you you're really done with it
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