Episode 181: Staying With Yourself When You Want to Numb or Run

Plenty with Kate Northrup

Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Life hands us all kinds of hard things. And when we’re going through a hard thing, we have a choice: Run, numb, or stay. Depending on the day, where I am in my cycle, and which way the wind is blowing, I choose differently. Given the intensity of the moment we’re in globally, though, and the number of hard things coming my way lately (I know you’re undoubtedly navigating your own set of hard things and I’m sending you so much love), I’ve been seeing what happens when I stay. Can I stay with myself when I’m crawling out of my skin being with my kids? Can I stay with myself when I’m feeling sensations during an intense workout? Can I stay with myself when Mike and I are in conflict about something going on within our business? Can I stay with myself when I desperately want an answer to unanswerable questions? Can I stay with myself? Staying with ourselves is not easy, and most of us were never taught how to do it. We have a million and three ways to numb or run...but developing a new neural pathway to support staying and mining the gold in the intensity is new for most of us. This week on the podcast, we’re talking about staying with ourselves when we want to numb or run. In the episode we share: • Our favorite numbing strategies and what we’re noticing about them right now during the pandemic (anyone else finding themselves staring into the snack cabinet at night hoping that something in there will fix your problems?) • About the time last week when it felt like my soul had broken out in hives and what I did about it • What birth taught us about staying • The critical difference between a feeling and a sensation and how one can set you free • The opportunity in staying that we lose when we numb or run There’s also a lot of hilarity in this episode because...well...we’re in quarantine and we have the sillies. Would you, or a company you know, be a good fit to sponsor The Kate & Mike Show? If so, let’s talk! You can email [email protected] regarding current sponsorship opportunities. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.
0:03.6	And I'm Mike Watts.
0:04.8	And we're partners in life, love, and business.
0:07.6	Welcome to the Kate and Mike show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship, relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.
0:21.7	Greetings.
0:24.1	Earthlings.
0:25.1	To the Kate and Mike show.
0:27.2	Hi.
0:28.0	We are coming to you from the basement, per usual.
0:31.7	Yes.
0:32.8	My coffee hasn't quite kicked in this morning, but it's getting there.
0:37.3	So you may notice my energy ramp up
0:40.3	as we go through the show. I'm still feeling a little. I had a late night call with our incubator
0:45.5	last night. And at any time I work after seven, I just, the next morning, I'm on the struggle bus. It's like a screen time
0:58.2	hangover. We should order Felix Gray, I believe, or Dave Asprey has those for Bulletproof
1:05.5	coffee, but they make those blue light glasses that are attractive looking. So I can show up on my calls with the sexy
1:14.5	glasses. Yeah, you can have your sexy blue light glasses. I know because the ones that we have are very
1:18.9	like space age. Well, they're yellow. Right. It's a, well, it's a yellow lens and then it's hard to
1:25.9	so when you're on a Zoom call doing talking to a bunch of people and you have a yellow lens and then it's hard to so when you're on a Zoom call doing talking to a
1:28.8	bunch of people and you have a yellow lens looking and you're leading it it's kind of strange
1:33.4	I mean I tell them all sorts of strange things the least of which would be weird glasses
1:39.4	but we will look into it yeah it's it's so, so much, so much data, interesting stuff around the way that screens and
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