Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little

better at life. I'm your host, Corey Mascara, before going into today's episode, just a quick

announcement that registration for my April 21 through 26 retreat in California is now open for you to sign up. For the first time in eight

years, I am relaunching this five-day immersion, which is now called the Unwind. And historically,

these five days are where people do some of the most transformative inner work of their lives.

If you've read my book or ever heard me tell the story about Naomi and her huge heart-opening experience, that was based on one of these five-day retreats.

People have identity shifting epiphanies and release decades of conditioning that has defined their relationships, decision-making, and happiness.

It's a really potent teaching container.

So if you're interested, you can learn more at corymiscara.com forward slash unwind. We'll also put a link in the show notes. Housing availability is starting to fill up, so I do encourage checking that out.

In today's episode, we are going to talk about that impulse when nothing seems to be working and you just want to burn everything down. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay.

So let's start with a thought. Your life doesn't need a total reset. It needs one honest sit down with yourself about what you've been running from. Everything shifts from there. So it's easy to believe that the solution to feeling lost or stuck is to start over, to quit the job, move cities, end the relationship, or reinvent yourself entirely.

Some of these actions may be aligned and necessary, but often they are reactive and

impulsive measures that are following a long period of poor boundaries, people-, and not listening to what you really need.

And eventually, the impact of this long-term disconnection and putting everyone else first comes

to a head. And your mind goes, I can't take it anymore. And that's when you

want to burn everything down. This is understandable and there may be a lot of things that need to

change, but it's also reactive. It's the other end of the continuum of what you've already been doing.

Suppression on one side, explosion on the other side.

At the heart of this impulse, I can't take it, I just want to get out. There is a genuine desire to feel happy and to be free.

This quiet impulse, even if it's shrouded in noise and reactivity, it is worth following. But that desire gets filtered through a mind

and a body that are worn thin with little capacity to hold the tension between what's

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