Hello and welcome back to the Self-Healer Salmbord. I am Dr. Nicole Appara and I am Jenna

Weiklin and today you are joining us for the How to Do the Work Master Class Chapter

1. You are your own best healer. I'm going to read directly from the book How to Do the

Work. Page 1, Chapter 1, the first paragraph if you would like to follow along at home.

Chapter 1, Page 1, paragraph 1. This scenario will likely feel familiar. You decide that

today is the day that you will change your life. You will start going to the gym, eat

less processed foods, take a break from social media, cut ties with a problematic X. You are

determined that this time these changes will stick. Later, maybe it is a few hours, maybe

a few days or even weeks, mental resistance enters. You start to feel physically unable

to avoid sugary soda. You can't muster up the energy to go to the gym and you feel compelled

to send a certain X, a quick text message to check in. The mind starts to scream at you

with convincing stories to keep you and your familiar life. With please like, you deserve

a break. The body joins the mind with feelings of exhaustion and heaviness. The overwhelming

message becomes, you can't do this. Now I know from my own personal experience and

experience working with others, how much this truly resonates on a deep level where

we're stuck in this, well the word stuck is the first thing that comes to mind. In this

cycle of starting and stopping again, maybe creating a new pattern, making a choice to

change, beginning it one day and stopping the next and finding yourself sort of in this

endless cycle or endless loop that then induces this self-doubt and this self-same which

actually creates more mental resistance for us to begin. I know Nicole, in your many years

with clients in the past, you have seen this stuckness will say very much firsthand.

Seeing this pattern week after week, I really first sought to understand why. Why were so

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