✨ What You'll Discover This Week
Ready to stop exhausting yourself by arguing with reality? Amanda, Laura, and Kendra are back with episode 172, diving deep into Byron Katie's powerful concept of "Noticing When Your Thoughts Argue with Reality."
Spoiler alert: You can't teach a cat to bark! 🐱
"You can spend the rest of your life trying to teach a cat to bark. Yet if you pay attention, you'll notice that you believe thoughts like this, dozens of times a day."
Sound familiar? We're constantly thinking:
Plot twist: All that "shoulding" is just making you miserable!
Byron Katie became known as "the woman who made friends with the wind" because she stopped fighting what she couldn't control. Her game-changing realization?
"When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time!"
Instead of asking "Why did this happen?" try asking: "What intelligent solutions can I find right now?"
This simple shift moves you from victim to victor, from stuck to unstuck!
What you CONTROL: Your choices, your responses, your boundaries What you INFLUENCE: Others (but you have to let go of the outcome!) What you CAN'T control: Pretty much everything else!
The hosts share real talk about setting boundaries with toxic supervisors and difficult colleagues—because accepting reality doesn't mean accepting poor treatment!
When you stop arguing with what happened, something magical occurs:
As one host beautifully puts it: "When you get stuck arguing with reality, you lose your vision of hope."
Notice when you catch yourself "shoulding" all over reality. Then ask:
Got your own "making friends with the wind" story? The hosts would love to hear it!
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Episode 172 | The Drive Time Debrief | Your weekly dose of sanity, inspiration, and real talk for physicians who are ready to thrive
