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Jun 2024
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143. Sarah #46: I Don't Feel Unrelaxed

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Doug throws a little science and neural linguistic programming at Kenzie to demonstrate how using certain language in session with clients can help in their pursuit of change. Kenzie and Doug highlight Sarah's progress as it's becoming more natural and instinctive for her to ask for help when she needs it. Sarah acknowledges the evolution of her relationship to control and boundaries. She continues to explore the idea from her last session about the rigidity of her religion of data. Sarah feels progress, and she still feels stress and anxiety, as she notes, "I don't feel unrelaxed." Doug introduces Spoon Theory to help understand our relationship to the energy and bandwidth we have in a given day.

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