You’re Doing Everything Right… So Why Do You Still Feel Off? 🤯 | Dr. Austin Perlmutter

Looking back at that time in my life, I drifted so far from the things that allowed me to feel connected and having purpose. I used to have this, like, an addiction to hypervigilance and being busy because I thought that meant productivity and success. And now the hypervigilance comes, the anticipatory stress that I have.

I think there's a dynamic tension between a little bit of this feeling of anticipatory stress, knowing that there is more to be done, and the feeling of contentment that comes from saying, this is enough. And I'm always fighting that.

There's no arriving, right? It's recognizing when those emotions or those feelings or the symptoms from the body come up and just owning in on, okay, this is a season of my life, a week of my life. Now I know that I need to then get back into nature instead of dismissing the symptoms like we maybe would have done previously.

There's this extreme irony here in that the more education and work you do to teach people the good stuff to do, the less your chances are of achieving that yourself. So I definitely experienced that.