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How to Become the Person You Want to Be | Hayden Finch, PhD | Paradocs Psychological Services | Hayden Finch, PhD | Paradocs Psychological Services

How to Become the Person You Want to Be

Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Solving Recurrent Problems, Stress, Time Management /

Psychological research tells us that the reason we feel anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed is the actions we’re taking.  There’s a specific person you want to become…you’ve envisioned that person for a long time, you’ve tried dozens of things to become that person.  You’ve meditated, you’ve gone to the gym, you’ve even gone to therapy. I’ve got a message for you in today’s article about how to actually make the changes.  

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The Brain Science Behind Why You Keep Repeating Behaviors That Make You Stressed | Hayden Finch, PhD | Paradocs Psychological Services | Hayden Finch, PhD | Paradocs Psychological Services

The Brain Science Behind Why You Keep Repeating Behaviors That Make You Stressed

Anxiety, Solving Recurrent Problems, Stress /

Last week, we talked about how using an emotional compass that’s pointed toward misery makes us reactive instead of proactive and ultimately makes us miserable.  That misery compass is part of what makes us repeat the same old patterns that make us anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed. As long as we’re not miserable, we just keep doing what we’ve always done.  

 

But there’s another factor that makes us repeat the same old unhelfpul, unhealthy patterns we’ve always used — think: wine, snoozing, and Instagram.  It’s an old factor that’s been hardwired into the human brain for thousands of years. This factor makes us keep doing things we know lead us right back where we started.  

 

In this week’s article, I share with you the psychology behind it.  

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