[Encore Episode] The Science of Stuck with Britt Frank
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This encore episode features Britt Frank, therapist and author of The Science of Stuck, and we're unpacking what it actually means to feel stuck and how to finally move through it. Britt has a gift for cutting through the shame we carry about our behaviors.
Whether it's procrastination, burnout, people-pleasing, or codependency, she breaks down the brain-body connection behind it all and reminds us that you can't logic your way out of an emotional process.
If you've ever felt frozen, overwhelmed, or trapped in your own patterns, this conversation is a lifeline.
What you'll hear about in this episode:
- How to define the 'first step' to help you figure out your plan for getting unstuck
- Britt explains why we can't think ourselves forward
- We explore the steps to help you get unstuck including: Validating what's happening and determining the resources available to help right now
- Why Britt says to stay away from positive and negative thinking and instead focus on accurate thinking
- Self-mothering is one the most powerful ways of breaking trauma bonds
Learn more about Britt Frank:
Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP is a clinician, educator, and trauma specialist. She speaks and writes widely about the mental health myths that keep us stuck and stressed. Britt received her BA from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she later became an award-winning adjunct professor. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Level 3 trained in the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model. Britt was a primary therapist at a drug and alcohol treatment center, an inpatient therapist at a children's psychiatric hospital, and now owns a private practice. You can find Britt on Instagram @brittfrank or on her website www.scienceofstuck.com. Her debut book The Science of Stuck was released 3-22-22 by Penguin Random House.
Resources & Links:
Focused Strategy Sessions with Kate
The Divorce Survival Guide Resource Bundle
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Kate on Instagram @kateanthony_divorcecoach
Kate on Facebook
The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage
Britt's website
Britt on Instagram
Britt's book
Mother Hunger, Kelly McDaniel
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back. I am taking the month of August off from releasing new podcast episodes. So for this |
| 0:08.7 | month, while I move and get my animals and my son and everybody situated in our new home, |
| 0:17.0 | I am going to be rebroadcasting some of your favorite episodes. |
| 0:21.5 | So I hope you stay tuned this month. |
| 0:23.8 | If you're new to the podcast, you might actually be new to some of these repeated episodes. |
| 0:29.1 | So I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:30.8 | And I will see you back on September 4th with brand new episodes and a new format because I will be introducing video in September. |
| 0:41.9 | Stay tuned. Have an amazing summer. I love you all so very much. And remember, you, |
| 0:47.8 | my love, deserve to be happy. Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about |
| 1:01.2 | co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should |
| 1:07.5 | you go. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your Divorce Surv survival guide, and I'm here to help you |
| 1:13.2 | navigate some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 1:19.3 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 1:24.8 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 1:37.1 | I fell madly in love with my next guest throughout this podcast recording. I think you'll probably hear it as it happens. |
| 1:48.7 | Britt Frank is a clinician, educator, and a trauma specialist. She's the author of the new book, |
| 1:56.9 | The Science of Stuck, Breaking Through Inert inertia to find your path forward. |
| 2:03.3 | Since so many of you are stuck in trying to decide whether to say or go, I thought this |
| 2:09.1 | would be a really good topic for us to talk about. |
| 2:12.8 | Britt received her BA from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she later became |
| 2:19.0 | an award-winning adjunct professor. Brits work focuses on empowering people to understand the |
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