You are listening to the Life Coach School podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 394

Welcome to the Life Coach School podcast where it's all about real clients real problems and real coaching and now your host master coach instructor Brook Castillo

Hello my beautiful friends. Okay, so I

Live in a high-rise building in downtown Austin and I share a floor with another penthouse and they are remodeling

So it has been quite an adventure to live in my home and the banging and the drilling

In the noise

So if you hear some banging and drilling and noise

I would just like to invite you into my home for the pleasure that it is to be in here right now

I apologize if it's disturbing but the show must go on

We must record and we must continue and so we are now going to talk about

unproductive thought work. I

Just recently got back from watching my son Blake golf. He's playing for his college

He is playing so well doing. I'm so proud of him so excited for all of the progress that he's made and all of the things that he's doing

It was just like such an amazing weekend to spend with him and one of the things that I was thinking about while I was there was

I was thinking about two things. I'm creating a podcast on kind of the negative 50 processing emotion

And then also talking about unproductive thought work when we actually use the model against ourselves when we can

use thought work in a way that doesn't serve us and for so many of us

Thought work has I mean literally saved our lives

It has put us on a trajectory that we wouldn't normally be on and created more success and more

Accomplishment and more well-being that we would have had without it, but sometimes we can take that very good thing and use it against ourselves

It's just like any tool can be used for us or against us

And so when I'm coaching people and they come to me they tell me that they've been doing thought work

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