You Cannot Control Every Thought - Taking the Leap Into The Improved You - Making Empowered Decisions Around Family

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The quest for happiness and staying positive is fraught with sadness and negativity, yet the existence of those things is exactly what it takes to experience the totality of a fulfilling life. You can't always be happy, and you wouldn't even know what happiness is if you didn't have the contrast of sadness. At the same time, if your life is full of hardship and pain, maybe happiness never arrives. Then what? Also, today's Ask Paul, I receive a letter from someone who doesn't believe she knows how to, or even deserves, happiness. Whenever she gets around family, she becomes "small" and is afraid to show them her new and improved self: The one who's had all this personal growth and development. She's afraid to move into that space so she stays the fearful child she always felt around them. Family is the hardest part of personal growth. Learn what it takes to be the real you in front of them in today's show. Get out of the mess by going to getoutofthemess.com - Real attorneys giving you legal advice for $20 a month.

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0:00.0	Take the overwhelmed brain at least once a day for a healthy dose of self-empowerment and personal evolution.
0:07.0	Are you annoyed by affirmations when someone walks up to you and tells you to think positively
0:14.1	Do you rip up those unpaid speeding tickets with the confidence and surety of Captain Smith of the Titanic?
0:20.8	Think positively will never hit an iceberg! If affirmations feel like lies and positive
0:25.8	thinking feels like denial, then get ready to start creating the life you've always wanted
0:30.9	now. Hello, this is Paul Poliani, host of the overwhelmed brain, the personal growth show for the critical
0:50.2	thinker.
0:51.2	On every episode we'll talk about practical, down-to-earth steps to help you improve your mood
0:56.9	and keep you sane in this powerful journey we call life.
1:02.1	I want to help you bridge the gap between your emotions and reason,
1:05.8	causing you to discover why you do the things you do and what you can do to reach
1:10.4	higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm.
1:15.0	And if you're here to learn more common sense tips for improving your life, you're in the wrong
1:21.2	place.
1:22.4	This is the direct path to uncommon sense and that's why it's going to help you learn, heal, grow, and evolve.
1:31.0	Today's quote is by Carl Young and it's this. Even a happy life cannot be without a
1:36.7	measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not
1:41.9	balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they
1:46.2	come along with patience in equanimity.
1:51.0	So in my opinion, Carl Young had a lot of things right and this is one of them.
1:57.0	One thing I've learned is that happiness is not something that we can grasp, so to speak.
2:06.0	If you make your pursuit a pursuit of happiness, one where you can attain happiness, you're going to be disappointed more
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