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Hello, friends.

I'm very, very happy to bring you today's conversation related to overthinking with the wonderful and very charming Dr. Patricia Zerita Ona.

Dr. Zeritaona worked with overachievers and overthinkers to help them get unstuck from

fear-based struggles and ineffective playing at safe actions so that they can show up to do

what works, what matters, and what they care about.

So much of what Dr. Zerita Ona works on is related to issues

and conversations that I've had on this show before. So it was really wonderful to dig in with her

on everything ranging from really figuring out your purpose in life, to dealing with

overthinking and playing it safe, to perfectionism,

to uncertainty. We've really covered the gamut. I hope you'll enjoy this conversation.

Let's get right to it.

Hello and welcome Dr. Patricia Zeritaona. Thank you for coming on the show today.

Thank you so much for having me, Christine. It's a pleasure,

and I'm so excited to chat with you. Oh, well, we have important ground to cover. So I'm going to

dive right in. I will have introduced you already in the introduction. You know, in some ways,

I think this conversation that we're going to have today is going to require

people to step into discomfort. We're talking about hard things. And so I actually wanted to start

on a positive valence, like where the end goal is and what people can see as possibilities

for themselves on the horizon. And I've talked before on the show about the

importance of finding and articulating purpose in life. I mean, I think it underpins pretty

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