Are you experiencing more anxiety than relaxation this summer? Are your expectations realistic? Do you feel stuck or broken? What is anxiety doing to you? How can we maintain momentum when we don’t feel like it? Join Dawn and Britt Frank a licensed neuropsychotherapist and author of The Science of Stuck and her newest release The Getting Unstuck Workbook as they talk about seasonal summer anxiety, setting expectations, and getting “unstuck.”

:: T I M E S T A M P S ::

0:00 How to manage summer anxiety
2:36 Seasonal summer anxiety
3:51 Reset expectations
4:06 #Chuckthebucket
4:29 Don’t worry about the why
5:14 My brain is on my side.
8:10 How do we help our kids?
10:17 It’s ok to need time.
11:32 Stimulation requires down regulation.
12:40 Boredom is NOT a problem to solve.
16:00 Microdose relaxation
18:42 Name it and own it.
22:25 Better done than good
23:01 How do we keep momentum going when the “pink cloud” goes away?
27:10 There is no such thing as a broken person.
27:35 Getting unstuck
32:20 Brains CAN change.

:: R E S O U R C E S M E N T I O N E D ::

The Science of Stuck Book: https://amzn.to/3L4taLq
The Getting Unstuck Workbook: https://amzn.to/45LJbQ3
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ABOUT BRIT: Britt Frank, LSCSW, SEP is a licensed neuropsychotherapist and author of The Science of Stuck (Penguin Random House), named by SHRM, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The Next Big Idea Club as a mustread as well as her new release, The Getting Unstuck Workbook. Britt received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master’s degree from the University of Kansas, where she later became an awardwinning adjunct instructor. Britt is a contributing writer to Psychology Today and her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, Fast Company, Psych Central, SELF, and Thrive Global.

www.scienceofstuck.com
IG: @brittfrank

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