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[00:00:00] Dr. Julia Bowlin: Indecision is a decision. By stalling, you're already choosing. And what you're choosing to do is stay in comfort of being stuck over the courage of moving forward.
[00:00:20] Hi there. I'm Dr. Julia Bowlin, physician author, hypnotherapist, and the founder of Personal Awareness Medicine, and welcome back to the Mindset Medicine Show. September's theme is all about fearless decision making. Today we're cracking open something that eats away at many of us. That stuck place where our brains churn, our hearts race and our feet feel cemented to the floor.
[00:00:43] It's called analysis paralysis. We think we're being careful, but really we're being caught in an endless loop of what ifs, replays and second guessing. And while our heads are spinning, life is passing us by. I have lived this. I seen it stall [00:01:00] professionals, students, leaders, and even doctors. We tell ourselves that we're preparing, but deep down we know we're avoiding.
[00:01:07] This episode isn't just about naming that trap. It's about breaking free. So let's take the bold leap together. Here's the thing, overthinking isn't a flaw. It's actually a sign that your brain is trying to protect you. The problem comes when that protection mechanism locks you down, and when you are feeling stuck in a cycle of research worries what ifs, you're not taking a leap into things that could actually change your life.
[00:01:34] I know this one personally, I spent months overthinking whether to step out of my family medicine practice after over 31 years. I weighed the pros and the cons until I could have filled an entire library with all my thoughts. Meanwhile, my soul was screaming, Julia, it's time. And when I finally took that leap, it didn't just change my career, it changed my entire life.
[00:01:59] [00:02:00] So if you've ever sat on a decision so long that it felt like it grew mold, you are in the right place today because this episode is gonna help you give yourself the permission slip to stop spinning in circles, and finally move forward with clarity, courage, and a little bit of edgy truth telling along the way.
[00:02:18] So stick with me because today I'm gonna help give you a coaching framework that helps you get out of your head and into action. Plus, I'll walk you through two powerful hypnotherapy tools that can rewire that stuck thinking at a subconscious level. And by the end of this episode, you won't just understand analysis paralysis.
[00:02:37] You'll know how to smash through it. Here's the trap of overthinking. Overthinking feels productive because we're using mental energy, but biologically. It's stress dressed up in logic. Our brains are wired to chase certainty. The perfect answer, that guaranteed outcome, but certainty doesn't exist. Waiting for it is [00:03:00] like waiting for every single traffic light on the route to turn green before we leave the driveway.
[00:03:05] We will never get anywhere. I've done this myself when I've walked away from that practice. I didn't have a neat little tidy guarantee and a bow saying, oh, it's all gonna be great. My brain was screaming, what if this is wrong? What if I fail? What if everyone thinks that I've just lost it? But if I had waited for a hundred percent certainty, I'd still be stuck in my exhausted, overbooked, and quietly miserable overburdened practice.
[00:03:34] Instead, I took the leap with what I knew. I trust that I could figure out the rest and that decision cracked open the file with which I live today. You know, this whole analysis paralysis thing shows up in ways that we don't even realize. A while back, I was standing in my kitchen staring at my blender.
[00:03:53] I do a lot of blending in my house right now with my husband's throat cancer. It sounds silly, right? But here's the thing. [00:04:00] I had this health kick idea. Should I buy organic pea protein or stick with the cheap stuff? Should I go vanilla or chocolate almond milk, or oat milk, or not any powder at all because it's kind of processed food.
[00:04:13] I just stood there for 20 minutes, no joke, overthinking the shake. Meanwhile, I could have just made something, anything and been nourished already. But I've rose because I wanted to get it right. And that's the trap when fear of making the wrong decision keeps us from making any choice at all. Now, multiply that life decision to something that really matters, like such as your job, your relationships, your money, and your health instead of just, you know, smoothies.
[00:04:42] How many of us get stuck in that same blender moment instead of being a smoothie? It's like our whole future is just sitting on pause. Here's the truth. Clarity doesn't come from thinking harder. It comes from moving, and it comes from choosing. [00:05:00] It comes from experience. You don't get a recipe for the perfect shape by staring at the ingredients.
[00:05:06] You figure it out by blending it and tasting it and trying things on. So today we're gonna step out of the mental spin cycle and into action. I'm gonna walk you through a coaching framework that helps cut through the noise. Plus a hypnotherapy technique to calm the panic button when your brain keeps pressing it, when it's wanting something perfect, A perfect certainty before you act, because let's face it, there's no perfect certainty, but I wanna get real for just a second.
[00:05:34] Overthinking isn't about just being careful or smart. It's also your brain trying to guarantee success before you move again. Your brain wants a hundred percent certainty, a hundred percent safety, a hundred percent guarantee. And guess what? Life doesn't work at a hundred percent, so let's not wait for the perfect guarantee.
[00:05:51] We don't want opportunities to pass us by, which is why I wanna teach the 70% rule. When you've gathered about 70% of [00:06:00] the information that you need to make a decision, that's enough to move. Why 70%? You might ask because it's a sweet spot. It's a sweet spot between being reckless and being frozen. Below that, you're winging it blindly.
[00:06:13] Above that, you're wasting precious time trying to chase a certainty that does not exist. Think of it like this. Pilots don't sit on the runway waiting for perfectly blue skies. They don't wait for zero turbulence. They don't wait for perfect conditions. They are taking off knowing they can adjust midair.
[00:06:31] You can do the same. Here's how to use the 70% rule in real life. First of all, you need to name the decision. Write it down. What are you trying to figure out? Get it out of your head. Get it out of the spinning cycle, and let's name it that naming it stops the tornado, that constant thinking and overthinking.
[00:06:50] Next, you're gonna gather your 70%. You might have to do research on Google or ask a few friends. You just wanna kind of get the lay of the land. Here's what you need to [00:07:00] do though. Set a timer. Because, let's be honest, endless Googling is just procrastination, dressed up as being productive. You think you're being productive, but you're just Googling.
[00:07:11] So set a timer. You get so many minutes to do your research. Number three is decide on the deadline. Put a date on your calendar. Not that someday, not when you feel ready and not when Mercury and retrograde finally stops messing with your Wi-Fi. Days, weeks, something that feels like forward motion. And next, take the leap, make the call, send the email, sign the paper.
[00:07:34] Say yes, say no. Just decide. Because action not thought creates clarity. And let me give you a small everyday example here. 'cause I said the grocery store the other day staring at almond butter. Do I get smooth? Do I get crunchy? Do I get organic? Do I not? Does it have corn syrup? Does it have sugar? What do I need to be thinking here?
[00:07:56] Do I buy a small jar or do I get the jumbo Costco size? [00:08:00] Can I say that? Costco size tub. I wasted about 10 minutes debating the nut paste. Why? Life ticked by again. That's analysis paralysis. Finally, I remembered my own darn rule. Grab the one that's 70% good enough and move on. Did I regret it? No. I got out of the aisle.
[00:08:19] I ate my breakfast and I went on with my day. You see, regret isn't in the choosing. Regret is in waiting.
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[00:09:35] Dr. Julia Bowlin: I've seen this play out over and over in my own life and in my countless. Client lives. Decisions get made in one of two ways. By design or by default. If you don't choose, life chooses for you, and life will usually choose the path of least resistance, which is rarely the path of growth. So here's your coaching takeaway.
[00:09:58] Stop waiting for a hundred [00:10:00] percent. It doesn't exist. Decide when you've got 70% enough information and move because clarity isn't something you think your way into. It's something you create by acting and that's really, really, really important. Now that all makes sense at a logical level, but let's be honest, logic isn't always what's running this show is it?
[00:10:21] Sometimes it's fear, and that's when overthinking kicks in. That's why I wanna teach you a hypnotherapy tool that will help you calm your subconscious need for the perfect certainty so that you can feel safe taking action at just 70%. Let's break this beast called analysis paralysis down. First the science.
[00:10:41] What's actually happening when you're stuck in a decision is that your brain is caught in a loop between the amygdala, your fear center, and the prefrontal cortex. Your decision making center, the amygdala is whispering. If you get it wrong, you're screwed. Meanwhile, your prefrontal cortex is [00:11:00] running cost benefit analysis like A CPA, the result decision fatigue.
[00:11:05] Your brain literally burns glucose when it's overthinking, which is why you feel exhausted after spending an hour trying to choose something as simple as what insurance plan or career step to take. Now, let's layer in a little personality. Some of you are classic perfectionist. You've been trained since child, that mistakes equal failure.
[00:11:26] Your nervous system is wired to avoid any risk of being wrong. Other people tend to lead towards people pleasing. You're not just deciding what's best for you, you're trying to anticipate how everyone else will react. Sound familiar? Then there's the information addicts. You just keep researching. Just one more article, one more video, one more spreadsheet that's gonna give me the golden answer, and here's the spoiler, it won't.
[00:11:54] And then we've got barriers, real barriers that trick us into thinking that we're being smart [00:12:00] when we're really stalling. These are the barriers that I really use often. So these are the things that'll keep you from moving. Fear of regret or making this decision that's wrong, that you're afraid it's gonna haunt you forever.
[00:12:11] So you won't choose at all. You might have fear of being judged. You're not just weighing your options, you're imagining what everybody else, your boss, your spouse, your best friend would think if you mess up, you might have fear of lost opportunity. You wanna keep every door open. The idea of committing to one thing feels like you're betraying everything else.
[00:12:32] Or you might have some over attachment to the outcomes you think your worth lives or dies in this one choice. So the stakes are paralyzing, but here's the raw truth. Indecision is a decision by stalling. I'm gonna say that again 'cause it's so true. Indecision is a decision. By stalling, you're already choosing.
[00:12:58] And what you're choosing to do [00:13:00] is stay in comfort of being stuck over the courage of moving forward. This is where the 70% rule comes in. It's science back and it's an antidote because here's the deal. Research from US Army War College shows that leaders are trained to act when they're at 70% confident.
[00:13:20] Why? They know that waiting a hundred percent leads to missed opportunities by the time you know everything that window has closed. So ask yourself, am I waiting for certainty or am I ready for growth? Because those two really exist in the same room. That's the coaching moment. I want you to grab onto, decide at 70% and trust that you can course correct as you go.
[00:13:46] Again, pilots adjust midair, CEOs, pivot strategies, parents improvise daily, and we all can too. So, all right, let's back this up with a little hypnotherapy technique, because knowing the [00:14:00] science is one thing, but we've got to calm the deeper primal part of our brain that keeps slamming on the brakes.
[00:14:07] Hypnotherapy helps to bypass the noise in quiet, subconscious fear that keeps us looping. Let me give you a real life example that snuck up on me a little while ago. A couple years ago, I decided to replace our living room couch. Sounds simple enough wrong. I turned it into a PhD level research project. I went to five different furniture stores, sat on over 30 couches.
[00:14:32] I Googled fabric, durability, stained resistance, lumal, part it with a fit. My tall husband at six three, my short frame at four nine. You name it. I measured the room. I remeasured the room. I mapped it out on a graph paper like I was planning a NASA launch. Why? Because in the back of my mind I was terrified.
[00:14:53] What if I choose the wrong one? What if my husband hates it and is not comfortable? What if the cat destroys it? [00:15:00] What if I regret spending the money? So I dragged the decision out for months. Every night I'd scroll through Pinterest like it was my job, drowning in beige versus gray, leather versus microfiber.
[00:15:14] Meanwhile, guess what? We're still sitting on the old couch, sagging couch. That swallowed me whole, like quicksand. My analysis paralysis didn't save me. It robbed me of comfort and time. Eventually I had to laugh at myself. This wasn't about couches. It was about the fear of making the wrong call and being judged for it.
[00:15:33] And when I finally picked one, just bought it. Within five minutes of sitting on that new couch, I wondered why I tortured myself so long. The regret wasn't in the decision, it was in the waiting. So here's the thing. That sneaky thing about analysis paralysis, it dresses up like responsibility, but underneath it's fear in disguise.
[00:15:55] Fear is a terrible interior decorator. I'm telling you the [00:16:00] lesson. Comfort and clarity don't come from thinking harder. They come from making the call, even if it's not perfect. And trust me, my couch that I have, I don't love it, but I have a couch and is much more comfortable than what I had before. Let's do a little mindset pattern interrupt for overthinking.
[00:16:18] Hypnotherapy. Here's a quick refresher, is a therapeutic technique that helps you quiet conscious noise in your head so that you can access your subconscious, the part of your mind that actually drives 95% of your thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. One of my favorite tools for breaking free from analysis paralysis is called the pattern interrupt.
[00:16:39] Here is why it works when your brain is an overthinking loop. It's like a record that keeps skipping on the same line. I am dating myself here now with a record example, but it's true. A pattern interrupt is a way of scratching the record so the needle can finally move forward. It skips over the thing that's [00:17:00] been keeping you in a super loop, so let's think of it right now.
[00:17:03] Try it right now. Think of a decision that you've been overthinking. Don't pick a big one, just something you've been stalling on. It might be getting new brand of coffee. I don't know. Think about something you've been stalling. Okay. Got it. Good. Now, notice what happens in your body when you think about it.
[00:17:22] Are you clenching your jaw? Does your chest tighten? Does your stomach feel heavy? Your throat get a little tense. Just notice it. No judgment here. But here's the interrupt. You can take your thumb and your middle finger. Press them together firmly and take a sharp inhale through your nose. Hold it for three seconds, then exhale forcefully through your mouth while releasing your fingers.
[00:17:52] What you're doing is you're just catching something and then you're taking your thumb in your middle finger, forcing them together really tight, taking a deep [00:18:00] breath. And as you do this, say to yourself out loud if you can reset. Sounds simple, right? But here's why this works. Your subconscious mind anchors meaning to a physical gesture.
[00:18:12] By pairing the physical reset with a powerful breath and a word, you're breaking the loop and creating space for clarity. Again, you're gonna think about a decision. You're overthinking something, nothing big. Be aware of where in your body it's coming to. Where are you feeling it? The pattern interrupt is taking your thumb on your forefingers, pressing them really hard together.
[00:18:36] Breathing in through your nose, holding it for three seconds, exhaling through your mouth, and then release your fingers saying to yourself, reset the physical movement with the powerful breath that stops the thought loop. This doesn't make the decision for you what it's doing. It's creating space for you to decide [00:19:00] without the feeling of panic and perfectionism, you can do that anytime.
[00:19:04] Reset. I clap my hands. I just breathe in reset. That's my simple move. It doesn't have to be hard. Remember, your brain is a pattern making machine. When we interrupt the pattern, we interrupt the paralysis. Now that you've got a quick release tool for calming, overthinking in the moment, let's go a little deeper because the truth is some of us just don't overthink once in a while.
[00:19:31] It is our default operating system, and that comes from deeper roots in how we see ourselves and what we fear most. So next I wanna talk about the hidden identities and the fears that keep us stuck and how to dismantle them. I've already talked a few little things, but let's be honest. Overthinking isn't about information.
[00:19:50] It's about identity. The person who we believe ourselves to be and the fears that come with that identity. And here's the thing, our [00:20:00] identity can change. It can either move us forward or lock us in place. For example, here's a few identities I see all the time, and also in myself, the good student. We are trained to get gold stars.
[00:20:15] Great a's praise for getting it right. So as an adult, sometimes we hesitate to act because we're afraid that we're not gonna get an A on this experience. Next is a fixer. We might have grown up smoothing things over, making sure everyone else was okay. Now we're paralyzed because we're not just making decisions for ourselves.
[00:20:37] We're mentally managing the reactions of everyone around us, and we're guessing and assuming what that might be. And next is the survivor. Maybe we've been through loss, betrayal, or even trauma. Our subconscious is wired to avoid risk because it remembers what it feels like when everything else is falling apart.
[00:20:57] So we overthink as a way [00:21:00] to build our armor. So do you have any of those identities? The good student, the fixer and the survivor, and then underneath all that we already talked about before about the fears underneath, the fear of rejection, of regret, of losing control, of not being enough. They don't just announce themselves.
[00:21:20] They disguise themselves as logic, and that's why we tell ourselves that we need more research, when in reality we're just protecting ourselves from vulnerability. Let me give you a fresh story here. A while back, I was invited to speak at a local meeting. The topic was right up my wheelhouse, but instead of saying yes on the spot, I stalled.
[00:21:43] I thought, what if my talk isn't good enough? What if the faculty think I'm too edgy? What if I say something that doesn't land? So what did I do? I obsessed over the email for days I wrote and rewrote my response, and I tweaked every word like I [00:22:00] was negotiating world peace. Finally, I realized it wasn't about the email, this was about my hidden identity as the good student who never wanted to get the answer wrong.
[00:22:10] My fear of rejection was stressed up like perfectionism. When I caught that, I hit send. And guess what? They said yes, the talk was a hit. And afterward one of the professors told me that my raw honesty is exactly what the students needed. So here's the lesson. The longer we let hidden identities run this show, the more opportunities that are slipping by us.
[00:22:33] The paralysis isn't in the decision. It's in the fear of being seen, and it's the only way through is to recognize that identity and thank it for trying to protect us. Then we get to choose a higher self that's ready to grow. I'll say that again 'cause that didn't quite come out as good as I wanted it to.
[00:22:52] The only way that we can move forward is to recognize that we have these identities that might be holding us back, that are trying to protect [00:23:00] us By choosing a higher self that's ready to grow and step out, we can accept that and move past the paralysis of indecision making. Now, if you've been stuck in analysis paralysis, don't just ask, what am I overthinking?
[00:23:15] Ask, who am I being when I overthink? Because that's where the real transformation starts. For example, here's a good example, because analysis paralysis doesn't just happen with life-changing decisions. It also can happen in all kinds of different things, and it might even ambush you in the middle of the aisle seven at the grocery store.
[00:23:38] I already said that. Not long. I was standing there again looking at olive oil. Organic, cold pressed, what is it? The Virgin Extra Virgin, the Rustic Label. The one from Tuska Villa, or do I just save three bucks and grab the store brand again? 10 minutes standing there frozen like the fate of humanity rested on a bottle [00:24:00] of this oil.
[00:24:00] Seriously. But why was I doing that? Because my brain was running the hidden script. Be responsible. Don't waste money. Don't pick the wrong one. Don't make a mistake. Make the healthiest choice be the good wife who buys the best. Folks. It wasn't about the olive oil, it was about my identity. And while I was obsessing, some women with three kids whizzed past me, grabbed a bottle and kept moving.
[00:24:24] She wasn't paralyzed by identity. She just made a call. That's what analysis paralysis does. It can trick you into thinking that the weight of your worth sits on the decisions that are actually not life or death. And when you just zoom out a little bit, you realize all that time you spent worrying, you're never gonna get back.
[00:24:44] So whether it's a couch, an email, or a bottle of olive oil, the paralysis isn't in the thing. It's in the story. We're telling ourselves about what it means, and if we get that wrong. And that's where the real work is. Okay? [00:25:00] Now we've looked at hidden fears and identities behind overthinking. Let's move into another hypnotherapy technique.
[00:25:07] This one goes a little deeper and it helps us to rewrite the subconscious script that fuels those fears so that you can start making decisions from clarity and not fear. Okay, let's put some handles on this so you can actually use it in real life. When you catch yourself spinning, here's what I call the three C's to break the analysis paralysis.
[00:25:27] Catch it. Check the fear. Choose anyway. Okay. Three C's to breaking analysis paralysis. Catch it because awareness is everything. The second you notice yourself looping and looping and looping, whether it's staring at a couch, an email, or an olive oil, call it out. This is analysis paralysis. Name it. Catch it.
[00:25:48] Next, check the fear. What am I really afraid of? Am I afraid of regret, which is loss? Losing something, uh, could be loss of money of [00:26:00] time. Am I afraid of judgment? Other people are gonna think badly about me, or am I afraid of losing control or looking foolish? Just find what the fear is under the fear. It probably has nothing to do with the decision itself.
[00:26:14] And number three is choose. Anyway, here's the key. Action. Not thought, breaks the loop. Even if you don't feel a hundred percent already, just choose something. Progress comes from momentum, not certainty. This is a rinse and repeat system. Catch it. Check what the fear's coming from and choose anyway.
[00:26:33] Because overthinking doesn't go away forever. It creeps right back in. But when you've got this tool like the three Cs, you can shut it down in real time. Catch it. Check the fear. Choose anyway. Confidence is built by choosing the presence of both. Now that the conscious level work is gone, the framework for rethinking your mind, let's be real.
[00:26:56] The subconscious is still wired to panic about wrong choices, [00:27:00] overthinking, and is going to come back, I promise you. So I wanna take you through a hypnotherapy process that's designed to rewrite those underneath unconscious hidden scripts so that your default isn't to freeze, it's to flow. Here's a quick reminder.
[00:27:16] Remember, hypnotherapy is just a way to bypass noisy, analytical part of your brain so you can tap into your subconscious, the part that actually drives your decisions, habits, and emotional responses. This is one of the most powerful tools for breaking analysis paralysis, and it's called the future Self rehearsal, and here's why it works.
[00:27:36] Your subconscious doesn't know the difference between real experience and vividly imagined experience. Athletes, including myself, used this to rehearse free throws divers use it to practice dives As a gymnast, I would imagine the perfect move my whole body honed in. Surgeons even use it to prep for complex procedures.
[00:27:58] When you mentally [00:28:00] rehearse, your subconscious builds neuro pathways as if you've already done the thing. That way, when you face the actual decision, your brain feels like, oh yeah, I got this. I've done this before. So let's practice this. I want you, if you're not driving and you're safe, close your eyes.
[00:28:18] Bring to mind a decision that you've been overthinking. It doesn't matter how big or small. Now, imagine yourself one week into the future. Picture yourself already having made the choice. See where you are, what's around you, and most importantly, notice how you feel. Is there relief, excitement from the decision, a sense of freedom.
[00:28:48] Anchor into that. Now, imagine yourself one year in the future. Visualize the ripple effect of what you chose. What doors open because you [00:29:00] acted. What energy did you free up, and how has your confidence grown? Finally. Imagine yourself five years in the future. Look at your future self, stronger, clearer, freer.
[00:29:18] Let them talk to you. Maybe they say, thank you for being brave. Thank you for choosing. Take in that gratitude and that wisdom.
[00:29:32] So you went one week into your future. One year into your future and five years into your future, taking gratitude and wisdom with you. Coming back. Take a deep breath in and exhale slowly, and when you're ready, open your eyes. That right there is a rehearsal for courage. You just taught your subconscious that action [00:30:00] creates relief and growth.
[00:30:02] The fear of regret starts to shrink because your brain has already experienced the payoff of moving forward. So now you've got both tools, a pattern interrupt for in the moment, spin cycles and a future self rehearsal to rewire the deeper fear of choosing. Pair those with a coaching framework that I talked about, and you're no longer a prisoner of overthinking.
[00:30:26] You're a decision maker in motion. Let me give you one more everyday example because sometimes analysis paralysis doesn't always just show up in the boardroom. Again, it makes up, but it makes show up in the couch. So you know that moment when you sit down to watch something, maybe on Netflix, you're tired.
[00:30:45] All you wanna do is relax. But instead of hitting play, you scroll and you scroll and you scroll, and 45 minutes later you're just still staring at different thumbnails, debating, drama or comedy, old favorites or new [00:31:00] releases. Finally, you're just so frustrated, you just turn it off. Or worse, you watch something you didn't even like that folks is analysis paralysis in action.
[00:31:10] It's the exact same brain loop. Fear of regret. What if I waste my time on the wrong show? Fear of judgment. What if I pick something dumb and my partner rolls their eyes or perfectionism? I need the perfect choice to get my perfect experience. Meanwhile, the night is gone and you didn't actually get the thing you wanted Most.
[00:31:31] Peace, enjoyment, and connection. And here's the kicker, it's not about the Netflix. It's about how often we waste time and energy in the same spin cycle in our bigger life. The lost opportunities aren't always couches or olive oil, but they could be relationships, promotions, health challenges, or even joy itself.
[00:31:55] And the truth is making any choice, even if it's not perfect, [00:32:00] gives you the experience you are craving all along. Movement creates satisfaction, stalling creates regret. So whether it's a career change, a couch, a bottle of olive oil or a Netflix doom scroll, you are not failing. If you've been overthinking, you're just running a protective loop.
[00:32:21] But now you've got the tools. You have coaching frameworks and hypnotherapy techniques to break the cycle and move forward with clarity and courage. So let's bring this home. Today I cracked open analysis paralysis that hamster wheel in our heads that feels like it's keeping us safe, but it's really stealing our time, energy and opportunities.
[00:32:42] Here's what you've got in your toolbox now, the 70% rule by making a call when you've got enough information, not when you've got the perfect information. Next. The hidden identities and fears, the good student, the fixer, the survivor, that [00:33:00] sneak into your decisions and keep you stuck. The three Cs, catch it.
[00:33:05] Check the fear, choose anyway. And two powerful hypnotherapy techniques. The pattern interrupt for in the moment, clarity and the future self rehearsal to rewire your subconscious for courage and growth. And of course. Those everyday reminders, whether it's couches, olive oil, or Netflix, you don't get clarity by scrolling or stalling.
[00:33:27] You get it by choosing, here's my challenge for you to this week, take one decision you've been overthinking and run it through these tools. It doesn't have to be a life changer. It can be as small as sending that email or finally deciding what's for dinner, but make the move and watch how good it feels to break the loop.
[00:33:48] If this episode hit home for you, share it. Please comment, send it to a friend who's stuck in the overthinking loop. My dream is to reach a hundred people in a hundred days, and your voice can help make that happen. [00:34:00] You can always connect with me on LinkedTree, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn on Dr. Julia Bowlin.
[00:34:06] Until next time, may you be happy. Healthy and be fulfilled.
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