How to Get Unstuck Post-Crash Out
Soul Gum
by Victoria Hutchins
4.9 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Feeling stuck, numb, or overwhelmed? Crashing out for the third time this week? Good news! Philosophy, the sad girl discipline of academia, has lots of advice for you. This episode breaks down 5 reasons why we get stuck according to philosophical greats like Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and more. We’ll talk about practical strategies to climb out of your spiral and start feeling like yourself again. If your search history includes ‘why am I like this’ and ‘how to feel okay again,’ press play.
EPISODE OUTLINE
00:00 Intro
04:53 You’re stuck because…
05:00 1. You’re free
05:18 The dizziness of freedom (Kierkegaard)
06:04 We’re condemned to be free (Sartre)
07:13 The fig tree allegory (Sylvia Plath)
13:21 2. You’re choosing information over experience
13:35 Mary’s Room hypothetical (Jackson)
22:49 3. You’ve outgrown a version of yourself
23:02 The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
26:54 4. You’re expecting sense in senseless places
27:04 The Trial (Kafka)
35:14 5. You think nothing matters
35:24 Mechanical life (Camus)
36:34 The moment of the absurd (Camus)
37:13 The myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
40:08 Lightning round recap
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
On Anxiety, Soren Kierkegaard (1844)
Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre (1943)
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963)
The Big Secret, Deepak Chopra (2008)
Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson (1982)
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (1915)
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (1942)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you're crashing out, if you're feeling stuck and you're not sure how to get unstuck, |
| 0:06.3 | good news, philosophy, the angstiest discipline of academia, has lots of wisdom to offer on this topic. |
| 0:14.8 | Why we crash out and how to crash back in. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome back to SoulGum, the self-development podcast with philosophical, psychological, |
| 0:28.5 | and spiritual flair. I'm your host, Victoria Hutchins. My goal is to give your soul something to |
| 0:37.0 | chew on. And today, we are talking about how to get unstuck. |
| 0:43.6 | Maybe you are in the wake of a crash out. Maybe you're having a little spiral moment. |
| 0:49.5 | Maybe you have tons of goals and huge dreams but you're finding yourself unable to devote yourself to any of them. Maybe you have tons of goals and huge dreams, but you're finding yourself unable to devote yourself |
| 0:56.4 | to any of them. Maybe you've been feeling numb and empty and you don't know why. Maybe you know |
| 1:01.8 | exactly what has you feeling stuck, but you don't know how to feel better. And maybe you're |
| 1:06.5 | thriving right now and you're just looking out for future you because you know you do crash out |
| 1:10.6 | sometimes. No matter what, you're in exactly the right place. If you're new here, welcome. Hi, it's so |
| 1:17.8 | nice to meet you. I'm Victoria. I'm so glad you're here. If you're not new here, I'm glad you're |
| 1:23.3 | here too. Hey, good to see you. Today, we are going to be talking through five reasons we crash out |
| 1:30.7 | according to philosophy and how we can uncrash out, how we can get unstuck when we're feeling stuck. |
| 1:37.2 | Today's episode is going to be another philosophy-focused episode because it has to be, |
| 1:43.2 | since we're talking about crashing out, |
| 1:45.3 | the entire discipline of philosophy is basically reflections on people's crashouts. |
| 1:51.2 | The existentialist philosophers are the original sad girls, the original emo kids. |
| 1:56.1 | Before there was boy genius, there was Kierkegaard, and and Kamu and Kafka, okay? You thought, |
| 2:02.8 | Taking Back Sunday wrote cute without the eat that was actually originally written by Jean-Paul |
| 2:07.8 | Sartre. Just kidding. But I hope that this episode will show you that you're crashing out is not |
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