Episode 148: The Adventure of Fully Showing Up As A Human Being

<em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Go big or go home. </span></em> <p><em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Dream big! </span></em></p> <p><em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Do big things.</span></em></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>That’s what all the self-help gurus and Pinterest tell us to do.</span> <em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>But is it really the answer? </span></em></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>We can all think of a time where we thought that going big—moving somewhere new, going after that new career, or buying the awesome house or car—would be the solution to all of our problems. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Yet more often than not, we find that those big moves aren’t the answer to our inner happiness nor our problems. I’ve found in my own experience as well as working with clients that doing the inner work and facing our humanness is what we need to do</span> <em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>first.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>That’s where the true big adventure lies.</span></em></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>All this month, I’ve been talking about Being Human. I spoke with</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/145-tara-mcmullin/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Tara McMullin in Episode 145</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>about being human in your business and with</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/146/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Sarah Kathleen Peck in Episode 146</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>about getting unstuck and out of your own way. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>In today’s episode, I want to expand a bit on the unstuck theme and how our tendency as people with High Functioning Anxiety is to do two things: 1) give up on getting unstuck and keep swallowing the dream of being superhuman, and 2) continually look for that easy fix.  </span></p> <p><strong>Listen to the full episode to hear:</strong></p> <ul> <li style='font-weight: 400;'><span style='font-weight: 400