183. How to bounce back stronger after emotional defeat
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This episode delves into what you can do when you feel defeated (after the breakdown of a relationship, losing hope for something, losing an opportunity or job, or being blindsided).
I go into a whole bunch of things you can do to turn this situation into something beneficial to help you grow beyond what you thought possible.
Brain / Science fact: Cyanide poisoning
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful boons and welcome to today's episode. |
| 0:04.5 | Today's episode, the theme is, or the title, the theme, is coming back stronger after a defeat. |
| 0:11.1 | So there's a lot to pack into this episode and I've got the brain fact as well. |
| 0:14.7 | And a listener question slash story at the very end of the episode. |
| 0:18.1 | So definitely tune in to listen to that. |
| 0:20.1 | I highly recommend you listen to that at the end of the episode just So definitely tune in to listen to that. I highly recommend you |
| 0:21.0 | listen to that at the end of the episode just because I feel like a lot of people will see |
| 0:26.1 | themselves in other people's stories. And sometimes you might have a question that you want |
| 0:29.0 | answered. And it's like, wow, that person asked the exact same question as me. And now I've got |
| 0:33.4 | that answer and I can apply it to my life, my situation, etc, etc. So the episode of today, |
| 0:39.9 | which is coming back after a defeat, there's so much that I want to talk about in today's |
| 0:46.1 | episode, I'm going to try and be as concise as possible because I just, yeah, there's just so many |
| 0:52.0 | points that I can talk about here. I feel that's so much of my podcast and a lot of the emails and dams that I get from my listeners |
| 1:01.2 | are all about coming back from defeat. |
| 1:03.7 | Now, defeat can be so many things. |
| 1:06.0 | It could be getting fired, not getting the role you wanted, trying something and it not working out, |
| 1:11.3 | putting everything on the line and it not working out. And probably the biggest one is heartbreak, |
| 1:16.0 | where you feel absolutely defeated where you've given everything to this person, or it feels |
| 1:21.4 | like, you've given everything emotionally to this person, you adore them, you love them and |
| 1:25.5 | you feel defeated and abandoned, and they |
| 1:28.3 | break up with you. Or you've been in a relationship where you've kind of feel forced to pull the |
| 1:33.7 | trigger and break up because it's just all gone completely pear-shaped and you feel defeated. |
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