Beyond The Rut Podcast

Picture this: You're booked for a flight, and while waiting in the airport it gets canceled. Quick as a gunshot, you tell yourself, "Everything is going wrong today." That, my friend, is a stress story. The unfortunate thing is that these stress stories often form so quickly possibly due to our human propensity for storytelling kicked into overdrive by factors like fear or anxiety. Instead of serving us as useful tools in dealing with challenges, they derail us, causing us to predict a negative future or feel stuck in a rut.  The good news is, we can learn to navigate them. Stephen shared insights into how our brains engage in this activity and the negative impact it makes. With these three easy steps you can crush your negative narratives that arise from stress stories. In this episode, you will learn the following: How to separate fact from fiction in your situation Determine if the stories you're telling yourself are helpful Cast a vision for a more positive and productive future Each step is designed