Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

And welcome back, everybody.

Today's episode is a coaching session with a listener named Christopher, who recently brought

Joe onto his own podcast called Do Explain.

Christopher has graciously offered to publish this session without anonymity, and I'm really

excited to share it with you.

Christopher wants to stop postponing his enjoyment in life.

This session opens up an exploration of what can happen when we bring

enjoyment into any moment, even the experience of chronic pain. On that note, we want to remind

our listeners that this is coaching. The conversations we have on this podcast are not intended to

diagnose, treat, or cure any disease or mental health disorder. Thanks for listening, and please

enjoy yourself.

I have a very intense somatic practice that I've been doing for a few years now.

And I'm at a weird stage right now where I feel like I've punctured a thick layer of

psychological defense in a way where stuff is leaking out and it's very hard somatically to block it.

It takes a lot of energy.

Like, it's close to the surface all the time.

And so I'm wondering in this context, when I do it myself, it looks kind of like an exorcism.

So I make weird noises and I move and I, you know, it's very alien.

And I'm slightly self-conscious that if we, yeah, when we work through emotional material here, that that's going to be, should I give in to what I would usually do when I let emotions move and my body move?

Yeah, be as authentic as possible.

Like, follow your, follow yourself.

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