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performance is not guaranteed. Brit Frank is a therapist, teacher, speaker and trauma specialist

who's committed to dismantling the mental health myths that keep us feeling stuck and sick.

Her work focuses on empowering people to understand the inner mechanisms of their brains and bodies.

Whether she's leading a workshop teaching a class or working individually with private clients,

her goal is to educate and power and equip people to transform their most persistent and

long-standing patterns of thinking and doing. She is also the best-selling author of The Science

of Stuck, breaking through inertia to find your path forward.

Brit, welcome. Hi, thanks so much for having me. It is an honor to have you and like so many of

our guests, we always start with their personal journey. And I've heard a lot over the years,

but yours is extraordinarily interesting. So please tell us.

So I would love to lead with all the shiny stuff, but the truth is as a Long Island Jewish girl,

there are very few ways to rebel because you can come home with piercings, you can come home and say,

I want to marry an alien, whatever. But the one thing you can't do as a Long Island Jewish girl

has become a Christian. So I joined a Christian cult and left home and moved thousands of miles away

in my effort to escape the habit and the pattern that I was born into, which was extreme. But that's

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