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Stuck: Why You Feel Trapped and How to Move Through the Storm
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- Apr 30, 2026
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- 2218
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Summary
Stuck: Why You Feel Trapped and How to Move Through the Storm. ..Why do so many people feel trapped in lives they can clearly see are no longer working — and why is it so hard to move? In this episode, we explore the hidden mechanics of being stuck: not as laziness or weakness, but as a deeply human response to grief, shame, uncertainty, and fear. Using the image of the American bison turning into the storm, this deep dive examines why avoidance can feel like protection while quietly becoming a prison, how repeated retreat hardens into identity, and why real change begins long before we feel ready. Drawing on the work of Pauline Boss, Brené Brown, Martin Seligman, Oliver Burkeman, Seth Godin, and Steven C. Hayes , this is an investigation into how people lose movement, how they begin to find it again, and what it means to walk into the storm instead of spending a life trying to live around it.