Finding My Footing After Everything Fell Apart: A Guide to Resetting Mid-Year Let's be completely honest for a second: this last stretch of the year has been a total mess for me. Who comes up with these arbitrary checkpoints anyway? Sometime around July or August, right in the suffocating heat of summer, you look up and realize the grand plans you made back in January didn't just stall out: they completely derailed. It’s such a shitty place to be. You're standing amidst the wreckage of half-finished goals, mounting burnout, and a brain that feels like it’s running on dial-up internet while everyone else on social media seems to be thriving on a perpetual yacht vacation. Panic attacks crept in uninvited. The deep holes we create for ourselves through self-doubt and over-hustling got a little too comfortable. If you’re sitting there right now feeling like your life recently fell apart: whether it was a relationship ending, a career hiccup, a health scare, or just a ...
What are we OK with? What works for us? What if we can't find it? Is there a way to just be fine with that? I ask these questions today and talk about how I feel about it all and where it has brought me now. Also big announcements for Breathe and Bounce as well. MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE THAT'S LIFE - Frank Sinatra WHAT YOUR SOUL SINGS - Massive Attack/Sinead o' Connor PAYING MY WAY - Dropkick Murphys I THOUGHT I KNEW IT ALL - Megadeth ONE DAY THEY'LL KNOW - Pretty Lights FINALLY - Swedish House Mafia/Alicia Keys