I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Have you ever been stuck? You know those situations where you're just in that relationship,

you're unable to break out of it, you're in a job that you're unable to break out of it you're in a job that you really dislike but are

unable to move on all of those things where we find ourselves simply stuck and somehow we ask our friends and they start to tell us hey push forward

move on be strong and you read all of those psychology books and they give you tips and advice and yet you remain stuck.

My guest today decided to make stuck the core of her work and her new book The Science of stuck which she wrote based on her personal experience as well as her professional work background and her research, she suggests that there are ways where you can

actually break out of being stuck that are not based on today's current methodologies of toughening up if you want.

Brit Frank is a clinical educator. She is a trauma therapist. She basically works mostly with trauma patients and she writes widely about the mental health myth that keeps us stuck. She received her BA from Duke

University, her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she later became the

award-winning professor. She's also a somatic

experiencing practitioner. I'm going to ask about that. I heard about

somatic. Don't remember exactly what that was. Level 3 trained in the internal family system therapeutic model.

And Britt was the primary therapist at a drug and alcohol treatment center,

an inpatient therapist at the Children's Psychiatric Hospital,

and now she owns her own private practice.

You can find a Brit's new book on the W. W. The Science of Stuck.com, but we're going to discuss it now to see if

getting stuck truly is something that follows a science.

Rit Frank. follows a science writ friend.

I'm really grateful that you join me. I'm going to take as much time as you give me because it's a wonderful topic but hopefully won't give you, keep you too long. So wanted to first start by saying,

I love what you're doing.

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