Joanne Smith explains how stress creates avoidance patterns like procrastination and relationship endings. The fix isn't external change but rewriting your internal dialogue. A simple writing exercise helps you tell yourself a new story and make intentional choices instead of reactive ones.
So, have you noticed any symptoms during stressful times in your life, and then you've been like, well, I can't do those things, and then you've dreaded doing those things again, or you've avoided them, um, or you've even done desperate measures like moved house or left relations, whatever it might be? Um, there's so many examples. So it really is about writing. Well, you don't need to— you can do this, you can write it out if you like writing, but really we do need to begin to share with ourselves a whole new story, a whole new story about what's possible. Sometimes the biggest things that we need to change is nothing to do with Circumstances that we're having in life. It's not about achieving more, doing more, being more, having more. It's not about that. It's about the inner dialogue, the inner talk, inner chatter. Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat. I have a lot of that, a lot of that going on inside my mind. It's the stories that we tell in ourselves.
