Hello, friends. Welcome to Level Up with Debbie Neal. I am your host. There is nowhere. I would rather be

than right here, right now with you. This podcast is all about leveling up in all aspects of our lives.

Thank you for being here. I am so grateful. I'm excited to be on this journey with you.

Together, we are leveling up. You ready?

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to level up. If you are here for the first time, welcome.

Today, we're going to be talking about something that honestly, for the most part, nobody really wants to admit.

But everyone at some point deals with this at some level.

And what we're going to talk about today is the addiction to comfort.

So when people hear the word addiction, a lot of times maybe they think of drugs,

they think of alcohol, they think of even social media.

But we're talking about comfort.

And generally people don't think that's an addiction because comfort doesn't feel dangerous. Sometimes comfort could even feel responsible. It could feel

mature. Like comfort could feel like, oh my gosh, like I've made it. And maybe I'm just, I'm enjoying my

business. I'm enjoying my life. I'm enjoying this season. And there's nothing wrong with enjoying.

Okay. But here's the truth. Comfort can quietly become the ceiling of your life. And seeing that you're here to level up your life, we're going

to address this. And it is because, not because comfort is bad, but because if you stay in it

too long, you know what it does? It begins to decide who you become and where you go. So some of the things I

want to touch on today is how comfort becomes addictive. Why high achievers are especially vulnerable.

So I'm talking to me. I'm talking to you because we're all vulnerable. Some of the signs that you might

be stuck in comfort, like you might be thinking, oh, that's not me, but maybe it is you right now.

And we're going to talk about how to break it, like without just completely disrupting your

whole life or feeling burnout, but just really ending the comfort.

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