Episode 182: The Science of Stuck with Britt Frank
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Britt Frank is the author of The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. Many of my listeners are stuck on the idea of whether they should stay or go, or stuck in trauma and fear. That's why I invited Britt to the show to talk about the small steps we can take to become unstuck and move forward with dignity.
Britt is a trauma specialist and psychotherapist. Her work focuses on empowering people to understand the mechanisms of our brains and bodies so we can break through procrastination and find our way home to ourselves. This conversation is amazing, I hope you enjoy it!
Show Highlights
- The fastest way to get out of being stuck is to take small steps (5:08)
- How to define the 'first step' to help you figure out your plan for getting unstuck (7:53)
- Dissociation is a self-protection mechanism - there'sa reason you're not doing the thing you want to do: you're experiencing the freeze response to trauma (13:11)
- Britt explains why we can't think ourselves forward (16:04)
- We explore the steps to help you get unstuck including: Validating what's happening and determining the resources available to help right now (22:40)
- Why Britt says to stay away from positive and negative thinking and instead focus on accurate thinking (24:52)
- Your inner critic wants to help, but they are just really bad at it! (27:59)
- Leaving a relationship requires detox and withdrawal (34:23)
- Self-sabotage is a way to self-protect - don't blame yourself for self-sabotaging. Recognize it's happening and then follow the steps to move through being stuck (39:41)
- Self-mothering is one the most powerful ways of breaking trauma bonds (44:24)
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. I have a great show today. I fell madly in love with my next guest |
| 0:52.6 | throughout this podcast recording. |
| 0:55.5 | I think you'll probably hear it as it happens. |
| 0:59.5 | Britt Frank is a clinician, educator, and a trauma specialist. |
| 1:05.8 | She's the author of the new book, The Science of Stuck, Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. |
| 1:15.3 | Since so many of you are stuck in trying to decide whether to say or go, I thought this would be a really good topic for us to talk about. |
| 1:25.0 | Britt received her BA from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, |
| 1:30.3 | where she later became an award-winning adjunct professor. Brits work focuses on empowering people |
| 1:36.2 | to understand the mechanisms of our brains and bodies so that we can break through |
| 1:41.1 | procrastination and find our way home to ourselves. |
| 1:45.4 | Guys, this conversation is amazing. |
| 1:48.9 | I just want to, before we get to it, quick note for grit and grace, which is the group |
| 1:57.3 | program that I will be launching in September. I've been talking about it a lot. If you've |
| 2:03.7 | missed me talking about it, go back. That last week's episode and a couple before that, you'll hear |
| 2:10.2 | me talking about it. But just if you want to get on the early interest list, if you're like, |
| 2:15.6 | holy shit, this is everything I've |
| 2:18.7 | ever wanted, go to kateanthony.com slash private coaching and put your name on the list to be |
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