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Your body is working against you right now...
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If you are new here... WELCOME, and I mean that genuinely. Over the last couple of days 50+ of you have joined and I do not take that lightly. So let me ask you right away: what brought you here? What are you trying to change right now? Hit reply and tell me. I want to know so I can make sure I'm providing content that meets you where you are at right now. I want to build on what I shared yesterday because there is a deeper layer to it. The biggest takeaway from Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself wasn't about mindset or motivation. It was this: you are not stuck. You are practiced. You have practiced thinking a certain way, feeling a certain way and being a certain version of yourself. For years, for decades, until that version of you stopped feeling like a choice and just started feeling like who you are. For me, that practiced version was survival. Anxiety, depression, shutting down, overthinking, and numbing out. That was my normal for 30+ years, and I didn't even know it was a pattern. I just thought it was me. Inside CMS, we call that FOG. FOG is not just a bad day. It is a state, a pattern, a survival identity that keeps pulling you back into drifting, hiding, confusion, and emotional shutdown. Here is the part most people don't want to admit... if I stop doing the work, I go back there. Not because I am broken, but because I was conditioned there for 30+ years. That is exactly what Dispenza is getting at. Your body memorizes your past, so even when your mind wants something new, your whole system pulls you back toward what feels familiar. That is why change feels so hard. Not because you can't do it, but because every single time you try, you are interrupting a practiced identity that your nervous system has spent decades building. That is not a willpower problem. That is not a discipline problem. That is just how deeply the pattern runs. I am practicing my way out of it every single day... catching old patterns, choosing different thoughts, showing up even when it feels uncomfortable. Not perfectly, but consistently. Because I know exactly what happens when I don't. And if you are being honest with yourself, you probably do too. So here is all I want you to do today: Just notice where you are in FOG right now. Is it your thoughts? Your direction? Your environment? Your daily actions? You don't have to fix anything today. You just have to stop running on autopilot long enough to actually see it. That is always step one. Hit reply and tell me: where do you feel yourself slipping into FOG the most right now? PROUD OF YOU 💙 Walking with you, Leasha Here's a way I can walk with you (and how I got started on this journey)… The LIST Method™ Tool: The tool that gets everything out of your head and onto the page - every thought, every fear, everything you have been quietly carrying so you can finally see it, analyze it, and start understanding what has actually been running the show. Grab it here​ |
Chaotic Minds Society
Join 689+ fearless souls getting real, raw, and transformative emails that help you break free from depression, anxiety, and feeling stuck... without the fluff, toxic positivity, or cookie-cutter advice.📥3-minute daily emails designed to spark breakthroughs, one small shift at a time.
It took me years to figure out what I actually needed. Every time I went to see a doctor or a therapist, I walked out with a new label and a new prescription. Nobody ever sat with me long enough to look at what was actually going on underneath. Nobody ever asked the harder questions. I just kept getting handed more medication and sent back out into a life that still felt impossible to live. And I kept trying to make it work because I did not know there was another way. In 2020 I hit a point...
Confession: we did not make it to the gym last night. We played pickleball, hung out, talked with friends, and by the time we got home I was just tired. So we went to bed. Old me would have turned that into a whole thing. "You are not disciplined. You are falling off. You are messing this up." You know the voice. The one that takes one missed step and turns it into evidence that you are fundamentally failing at life. But here is what actually happened... we went to the gym today. We still...
I am sitting in a booth right now waiting to play pickleball, typing this on my wife's laptop. Because I knew if I waited until we got home tonight, gym after pickleball, late night, tired... this email was not getting sent and I missed a day recently and I told myself I was not doing that again. So here I am in a booth with my wife's laptop. Pickleball in 30 minutes. And my brain still tried to talk me out of it. "Just skip today. You can do it later. No one will notice." That right there?...