Hey there. You're listening to drinking from the toilet. And I'm Hannah Branigan. Today, we're going to talk about what you can do when you get stuck.

Why are we even talking about this?

Well, mostly because I was sitting here trying to think of what topic I should make my next podcast be about.

And I got stuck.

I couldn't think of anything to talk about.

I kind of sat here.

I looked at a few things on the internet, checked Facebook, took a few

pictures of my dog with my phone, and pondered on how many other places in my life I feel

stuck and maybe feel like a failure. And of course, at least one of those places in my life

is where I feel stuck when I'm training a dog.

So I thought, well, let's do a podcast about feeling stuck when you're training.

Because I think that is a fairly ubiquitous experience.

There's probably other people out there that sometimes get stuck when they're trying to train

a behavior.

And so in my previous life, when I would run into a problem, it really almost was a pattern,

really, where I'm, so I'm working on training a behavior or maybe untraining a behavior

problem and I would get so far.

I would make a certain amount of progress and then I would get stuck and I would revert

to punishment.

Maybe intentionally as a training choice or unintentionally just as an emotional

expression of frustration.

But either way, I would often fall back on these old habits after feeling like I was running

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