You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirst and Sarty episode number

193.

Hi, today I'm talking about discomfort.

I don't think any of us really want to feel any kind of discomfort.

We would probably all prefer to just live a life full of comfort and feel good all the time.

I know I would. But unfortunately, that's not how real life is. Real life has the good and the bad,

the positive and the negative, the comfortable and the uncomfortable. No matter how hard you try

or how much thought work you do, you're still going to feel bad, negative, and uncomfortable. No matter how hard you try or how much thought work you do, you're still

going to feel bad, negative, and uncomfortable sometimes. So first things first, let's accept that

this is how life is for all humans, all of us, even celebrities and billionaires and people you see

on social media who seem like they have the most

amazing lives. They get upset about things. They feel stressed and frustrated. They feel urges for

things. They don't want to feel urges for. They feel mad. They feel scared. Negative emotions and

discomfort are going to happen for everyone.

So expect it to happen.

Now, there's so many reasons why we might feel uncomfortable and so many kinds of discomfort,

but today in this episode, I want to focus on two types of discomfort.

The kind that changes you and the kind that keeps you the same.

There's the kind of discomfort that you go through when you're stepping outside of your comfort

zone, doing new things you haven't done before, taking chances and risks, breaking and

creating habits, changing your mindset, doing things that scare you a little

or a lot, and feeling your feelings instead of avoiding them. That there is discomfort that will

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