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Dr. Julia Bowlin: [00:00:00] The pressure behind a life that looks completely right from the outside, and the quiet, uncomfortable realization that maintaining it has started to cost more than it used to.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Hi, I'm Dr. Julia Bowlin, and you are listening to Mindset Medicine with Dr. Julia, your weekly dose of personal awareness medicine. And today's episode is titled, "A Life That Looks Right But May No Longer Feel That Way." So take a deep breath and let this episode meet you where you are. And if where you are right now feels a little heavier than usual, a little harder to explain than it should be, that's exactly why we're here today.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Last week, we talked about something quiet, that feeling that shows up in the most ordinary moments, a pause in the car, a cup of coffee in the same chair, where something on the inside shifts just [00:01:00] slightly. Nothing dramatic, nothing that makes logical sense, just a signal that something is different than it used to be.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And I asked one question at the end of the last episode, and this is the question: Is there a signal that's been showing up that keeps getting explained away? In other words, are you feeling something? You know it's there, but you keep explaining it away. And if that landed somewhere real, then this episode is what comes next, because here's what tends to happen once a signal gets acknowledged, even quietly, even just internally.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: The next thing that surfaces isn't clarity. It's relief. It's pressure. The pressure behind a life that looks completely right from the outside, and the quiet, uncomfortable realization that maintaining it has started to cost more than it used to. And that's where we're gonna go today, and it's a conversation [00:02:00] worth having honestly.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: When I say it starts to cost more than it used to, I wanna be specific about what that actually means, because it doesn't look like a crisis from the outside. In fact, it doesn't look anything like anything, really. It looks like a Tuesday morning when getting dressed for the day feels just a little more effort.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Like, it just takes more. Not because anything's wrong, just because somewhere along the way, the routine that used to feel natural and good now feels like a performance, something you've practiced. It looks like sitting across from someone at dinner, somebody who loves you, someone who might know you deeply, and answering the question, "How are you?"
Dr. Julia Bowlin: with an automatic answer. It's accurate enough, but it's just one that keeps things moving in autopilot. It looks like preparing for something that used to feel exciting and noticing that preparation now feels like work. [00:03:00] in a way that it didn't before. It looks like Sunday evening carrying a weight that Monday morning doesn't fully explain.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's just heavy on a Sunday. I call them Sunday scaries or Monday mania. Like, it looks like doing everything right and feeling vaguely disappointed from all of it at the same time. And here's the part that makes this actually particularly hard to sit with. None of those things look like a problem from the outside.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Life is intact. The responsibilities are being handled. The role, whatever the role might be, you're showing up for it. But internally, something is quietly running a different frequency than it used to. And that gap between how life looks and how it actually feels to be living it might be getting harder to ignore.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That's the cost I'm talking about. Not drama, not a breakdown, just a [00:04:00] slow, steady drain on something that used to feel replenishing, maybe even soul-loving. So let's talk about what actually happens when living a life shifts into just managing one. And I wanna start somewhere really ordinary. Let's think about starting a car.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Not the first time it's ever been driven, not the memorable road trip or a significant journey or big vacation, just a regular Tuesday morning, getting in, turning the key, pressing the button, or turning the ignition if you're from my generation, and backing out of the driveway. It happens almost before the mind is fully awake.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: The hands know what to do. The body knows the sequence. There's no decision-making involved anymore. It just runs. That's a pattern, a deeply encoded, incredibly efficient pattern that the brain built through repetition and then [00:05:00] handed it off to autopilot so that the conscious energy can be used somewhere else.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: This autopilot happens all the time, and most of the time, it's a beautiful thing. But here's where it gets interesting. What happens when the morning routine, the coffee made the same way, the same mug, the same quiet sequence that has started every day for years, just starts to feel a little slightly hollow?
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Not wrong, not broken, not just automatic in a way it didn't used to be. Like, I don't know. What happens when the ritual before bed, the thing that signals to your body that the day is ending, the wind-down that used to feel genuinely comforting and lovely and calming just starts to feel like another thing to get through?
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That's not a small thing, folks. That's a pattern still running while something underneath has quietly shifted. [00:06:00] James Clear, an author, write about this in the book Atomic Habits. The idea that every repeated behavior is essentially a vote for a particular identity. Every morning ritual, every professional habit, every way of moving through the day is just quietly saying, "This is who I am.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: This is what I do." And for a long time, all those votes were building something real. But here's the question nobody asks: What happens when the thing actually gets built? You actually got there. You're successful. You made it to the goal. What happens after the thing actually gets built? The habits we built so meticulously don't quietly reorganize themselves.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: The identity doesn't automatically update to reflect our new season. Our brain keeps running the same system, [00:07:00] because the system is what worked. So the patterns keep running, even when the person who's running them has quietly become someone slightly different. Hmm. And here's where it gets a little deeper, because the maintenance pattern isn't about just habits.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's about something underneath those habits, something the brain protects without being asked to. And ladies and gentlemen, that's identity. And identity is remarkably stubborn. Not flawed, but just in a very human way. Think about the morning newspaper, or the podcast that goes on during a commute, or the specific order in which the morning gets done.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Shower, then coffee, then this, then that, in exactly the same sequence it's always been done over and over and over. These aren't just habits. [00:08:00] Over time, they become a part of the story of who someone is. They become quietly identity. And when that identity starts to feel slightly misaligned, when the podcast that used to feel genuinely energizing starts to feel like just background noise, or when the morning sequence that used to feel grounding starts to feel like you're just going through the motions, the brain doesn't immediately say, "Oh, interesting.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Something has changed." It says, "No, this is who we are. Keep doing it. Keep going," because that's what we do. That's who we are. That's what got us to where we are at this point in our lives. But we're not aware of it anymore, because it's just autopilot part of our identity. And here's the thing Gay Hendricks called this in the upper limit problem in The Big Leap.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: If you haven't read The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, go do it. It's not a big book, [00:09:00] but it might take you a little while to get through, and definitely flag pages. Bring your highlighter and your pen because you're gonna go, "Crap. Oh, crap. Oh, my." I'm telling you, The Big Leap. But Gay Hendricks called it out.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: This idea that there's an internal thermostat, a setting which how much ease, how much alignment, or how much expansion a person will allow before something unconsciously pulls them backward towards familiar ground. And it's not because something is wrong, it's not because the person is deliberately holding themselves back, but because of identity, and our identity hasn't expanded enough to hold what is actually trying to emerge and shift and grow.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: So there's this invisible ceiling where everything looks successful from the outside, where the life is intact and the responsibilities are handled, and the morning routines look like clockwork, [00:10:00] and yet the clockwork itself hasn't started to feel like it belongs. It feels weird. It belongs to a previous version of the previous person who was running it.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: I hope that makes sense, because we live in autopilot. We do the things to get to where we are. It makes us successful, and this is who we are. But then all of a sudden, guess what? We keep evolving, we keep growing, but our identity, our rituals, and our habits may not, and so we go back to what's comfortable.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And I experienced this for myself for years. My medical practice was built, my life was built, my routines were built, and they all kept running beautifully long after something inside of me had quietly outgrown the container that I... all those things were built in. And my container wasn't broken, it just wasn't updated.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: But noticing [00:11:00] that did not feel like clarity at first. It felt disloyal. It felt like me acknowledging that something had to change, and it felt like a betrayal of everything I had worked so hard to build. But here's the thing, it wasn't a betrayal, it was just part of me needed to be honest. And underneath all of this stuff, our bodies hold something that the mind oftentimes hasn't processed yet.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And it might show up in, again, not these huge, momentous, holy crap moments. It might show up in just really routine, ordinary moments, like getting in the car in the morning and just sitting there for a second longer than usual before starting the car, not because anything is wrong, just because Gosh, the pause wasn't there before, and you needed a moment just to think.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It might show up as standing in the kitchen waiting for the coffee to brew, which was a ritual that used [00:12:00] to feel really reliable and maybe even comfortable, and a wonderful moment before you started the day, and just noticing a flatness that's hard to explain. It's just there, doing a ritual, not even smelling the coffee.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Or maybe getting into bed at night and going through the wind-down routine and realizing that somewhere in the middle of it, it's been weeks since the routine actually felt restful rather than just necessary. Again, these aren't crises. They're not symptoms that would show up anywhere on somebody's chart.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: They're the body quietly registering a gap, the distance between the person who'd been showing up over and over and over, and the person that's actually feeling things right now inside. And the body, again, doesn't rationalize the gap. It doesn't [00:13:00] file it away under other people having it harder or saying, you know, "I shouldn't be feeling this way," or guilt.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It doesn't label it as restless or dramatic or shortsighted. It just says, "Okay, this is just who I am," and we just keep carrying it. But it might physically show up in the shoulders by mid-morning, tightness and tension, or in the tiredness that a full night of sleep doesn't quite fix, or in the way certain conversations, conversations that should be really engaging and energizing, just leave something slightly flat behind them.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's not weakness. It's not failure. And it's not disloyalty to a life that was really built with love and intention, or a career that was lovingly built with love and intention. It's just our body being [00:14:00] honest, and the only language it has, tension, pain, discomfort, disconnection. And it's worth listening to, folks.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It is so worth listening to. We are built so many times in our life to ignore our body signals, and these signals are something that need to be addressed. Stay with me here for a moment, because understanding what's actually happening underneath all of this changes the way it feels entirely. The brain is, at its core, a pattern recognition machine.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: I have talked about this over and over, and it is extraordinarily good at its job Think about driving a familiar route, the one you drive every single day to work, to school, to the grocery store, wherever. At some point, the brain handed that route to your autopilot-ness. [00:15:00] Is that a word? Autopilot-ness?
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Well, your brain handed that route to your autopilot. Your hands know how to turn. Your body knows where the traffic slows and speeds up. The mind can be completely somewhere else, and the car still drives. That's the brain working exactly how it was designed to do. It's building patterns from experience and then running those patterns automatically so conscious energy can be used somewhere else.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's remarkably useful until the pattern outlives its purpose. Because here's what the brain doesn't do automatically. It doesn't evaluate whether the pattern it's running still fits the person running them. It doesn't check in periodically to ask, "Hey, does this morning routine still serve you and the person you're becoming?"
Dr. Julia Bowlin: No. Does this professional identity still reflect what's going on inside? No. [00:16:00] The brain's not doing that. It just runs a pattern efficiently, reliably, and without question because that's what it does for safety and consistency. So the identity that was constructed during a building season, the driven discipline, always moving forward version of ourselves, gets encoded into this core program, and it becomes part of what the brain understands as me, as this is who I am, this is what I do, this is what I get, this is what gets repeated over and over and over every morning, every afternoon, every evening, or even before our coffee is finished.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: The routine becomes indelible as part of identity. And once something becomes part of that core program, the brain is going to work hard to protect it. It is not out of stubbornness. It's out of efficiency. It's out of a deep biological need [00:17:00] to maintain a stable, predictable sense of self. A predictable, stable sense of self, which is why changing can feel disloyal even when what's being changed no longer fits us.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: There's like this disconnect, this bias, this interruption, which is why a morning routine that's slightly off can feel strangely unsettling. You're uncomfortable even when nothing visible has changed. Think of it this way. There's a pair of shoes that fit perfectly at one point. It's worn every day.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: completely comfortable. They just are the completely right thing for everything things were, and then gradually, quietly, they start to shift. The person wearing them might change, okay? And these shoes didn't change with them, and now there's a slight friction in the shoe that wasn't there [00:18:00] before, right?
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Just enough to notice, enough to make the end of the certain days feel more tiring. The shoes just don't fit. It might be because of your personality. It might be because your new outfits. It might be just 'cause they have just changed over time, and so have you. And it's not a flaw in us when this happens.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's not a disloyalty that the shoes failed, even though they once fit beautifully. It's just what happens when our growth, our bodies, our day outpace the identity those shoes were built to contain. I'm gonna tell you, this may sound funny, but my husband wore Skechers every day at work. He loved those stupid things until he didn't, and then one day somebody said something.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: He's like, "You know, you could wear nicer shoes to work." He's like, "You know, I probably could." And then he started noticing, and next thing I notice, he started having dress shoes in his closet, right? So suddenly [00:19:00] his identity was no longer just Skechers comfy shoes. So again, this isn't about who we're becoming.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's who we've trained ourselves to be over time, and those two things don't have to be the same person, right? Once we recognize there's a friction, we don't have to let it keep going until it feels, like, raw or that there's something wrong with us. It's just information, a discomfort that is triggering us to look at something that means it's time for a change, a trigger.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's just information, folks. It's just data, and sometimes if we don't address that discomfort or that pause in the morning in our routine or that flatness when we're talking to somebody and we're really not present or, for me, the tension and the stress of going to work and just not feeling right, and my husband using the sentence, "Being a [00:20:00] doctor is a privilege," to reset me because in my gut something was unsettled.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: I needed more. I wanted more. The routine of it all just wasn't sitting where I wanted it to be. All right. So I wanna take a moment here and invite you into something that I call a unicity moment. This is something I'm gonna be implementing into all of my future podcasts because I was doing it before, but I wanna label it now.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: This unicity moment is a signature part of what I do and what I've built my entire practice and coaching practice around. Unicity is the experience of an uncluttered mind, an uncluttered body, and an uncluttered soul. And this moment is designed to help you access a little bit of that. But before we go there, here's a few things.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: If you're driving or operating any kind of machinery right now, just save this [00:21:00] part for later. Come back to it, come back to it if you can, or obviously keep your freaking eyeballs open on the road. So if you choose to participate, you are always aware, always present, and always in complete control.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Nothing here requires you to do anything that doesn't feel right. This is just an invitation, not an instruction. I've done this before on my podcast episodes, and it's just a moment to be present and go inward. And if you simply wanna listen, that's okay too. But sometimes just hearing it is enough. So wherever you are, whatever you're doing, if you are ready, let's go inward for just a few minutes.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Minutes that's a word, minutes. All right. If you can, and you're not driving, operating machinery, wherever you are right now, allow yourself to get a little more comfortable. And I'm gonna do the same thing. You're gonna hear me adjusting because I just need to get more comfortable here. I've been sitting [00:22:00] here a little bit long.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: All right. This is a longer episode than usual, isn't it? I think-- Wait a minute. Is Dr. Julia coming back out of the dark a little bit? I think maybe I am. I was kind of in a dark place there for a while. You might be hearing my personality jumping into these podcasts a little more, which is kinda where I used to be.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: You may not like it, but here I am anyway. All right. Wherever you are now, allow yourself to get a little more comfortable. You don't need to change anything dramatically. Just settle in slightly more than you were a second ago, and take a breath in and let it out. Notice that you're here, present and aware, and in completely in control of this experience.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Allow your attention to move gently to the weight of your body wherever it's resting now, [00:23:00] the chair beneath you, the ground beneath your feet, the quiet, solid fact that you are supported.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: You don't have to do anything with that awareness. Just rest for a moment. And with your next breath, allow your shoulders just to soften slightly. Not forced, just permitted. And there may be thoughts moving through your brain, and that's completely fine. Thoughts are welcome here Just simply allow them to pass the way clouds drift across a sky.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That doesn't change the sky itself, they're just drifting, and in this moment, you're the sky. Steady, open, and still.[00:24:00]
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Now gently bring your attention inward. Not searching for anything specifically, just tuning yourself in for a moment. You might begin to notice a quiet settling of your body, a slight release of something that's been held. It might be subtle, and that's exactly right. If it feels right, imagine a version of yourself that isn't required to be anything in any particular way right now.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: No role to fill, no expectation to meet, just being present.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Notice what that brings up. It might feel like relief, or it might feel [00:25:00] unfamiliar. Both are useful, both are welcome. And I want to gently bring something into this space with you. There may be patterns, habits, ways of moving through the world that were built during a particular season of life. A time when everything required focus, drive, maybe even a singular dedication.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And if any of that resonates, you may begin to notice that some of those patterns are still running quietly in the background, even if the season that created them has already passed. That's not failure, it's simply how patterns work. They don't retire themselves. They continue until something or someone gently notices them.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: So if there's a version [00:26:00] of this that feels familiar, if there's something being carried that once served a clear purpose, but may be asking more of you now that it's giving back, allow yourself to simply notice that without judgment, without urgency.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: There's no requirement to do anything with it right now. You may begin to sense, if it applies, the difference between who you have been showing up as and who you actually are underneath all that. Those two things may be very close together, or there may be a small space between them worth getting curious about.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Either way, you are not the pattern because patterns are learned, and patterns can shift, and you can choose what stays. You always [00:27:00] have.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And as you sit with that for just a moment, allow yourself to sense, even briefly, what it might feel like to carry a little less. Not to have less, just to carry less. To move through the day from a place that feels more like who you are actually are right now, and less like who you were needed to be to get here.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That sense of ease, that quiet alignment, it isn't far away. It's the simple act of noticing is already the beginning of something real.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Gently now, begin to bring your attention back to the room. Notice the sounds around you, the [00:28:00] light, the air, and take one slow breath in, and let it go.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And when you're ready, in your own time, allow yourself to return fully to this conversation
Dr. Julia Bowlin: carrying with you whatever felt true in there. There is nothing to figure out right now, nothing to fix, nothing to force, and nothing to resolve. Just the quiet permission to be exactly where you are while something inside begins ever so gently to unclutter.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Fully present now, energized, excited, and moving forward, here's what I want to offer. This is so important, and it's a reframe, [00:29:00] and I want to be careful with this because I don't want it to sound like a bumper sticker. This isn't about thinking positive. This isn't about reframing discomfort into gratitude or deciding to see the, the bright side of life.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That's not what this is. This is something quieter than that, and honestly More useful. For most of us, when an uncomfortable feeling shows up, the internal relationship with it immediately is about trying to find a resolution. How do we fix this? It's uncomfortable. We gotta fix this. How do I make this stop?
Dr. Julia Bowlin: What's wrong? How do I fix it? What does this mean? And how quickly can I figure it out so I can move on? Because our mind wants to close the loop, and fast. And what that means in practice is that the feeling never actually gets heard. It gets managed, analyzed, argued with, and maybe even explained away.[00:30:00]
Dr. Julia Bowlin: And then it comes back, because it's always going to come back, because it was never answered, just silenced temporarily. Here's the reframe I want to offer, and I want to be careful with this because it isn't easy, and it, it sounds simple, but it really isn't. The patterns that were built, the drive, the discipline, the identity constructed around achieving something weren't mistakes.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: They were exactly right for the season they were built in. James Clear talks about this in Atomic Habits, the idea that every behavior, every habit, every routine is essentially a vote for the identity we believe ourselves to be. I said this earlier, and for a long time, those votes made complete sense.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: They were building something real. That's how I got through medical school. That's how I met my husband. That's how I got through residency. I had children, and I had my practice. Every [00:31:00] routine voted for the identity that I believed myself to be, a doctor. But here's what doesn't get talked about enough.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: What happens after the things get built? Those habits don't automatically update. The identity doesn't quietly reorganize itself into a reflection of our new reality, our new identity, our new person. Our brain keeps running the same previous system because that's the system it knows, the system that worked, and the nervous system doesn't easily retire something that once kept everything moving.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That worked. Gay Hendricks in The Big Leap calls this, the book The Big Leap, I should clarify, the upper limit problem. The idea that there's this internal thermostat, a setting for how much success or ease or genuine alignment will be [00:32:00] allowed before something unconsciously pulls us back into familiar territory.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It will pull us back into comfort. It will pull us back into what's familiar and known. Not because it is self-sabotage, but because the identity hasn't yet expanded to hold the new version of ourselves of what could be possible. And that's what the heaviness sometimes is that we might feel in the undercurrent when we're staring at the coffee machine or pausing in our car, or not quite listening to conversations that used to really engage us.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It's not a failure. It's not a disloyalty to something meaningful that got you there. It's not a sign that we've made wrong choices even. It's our identity pressing against a container that was built for an early version of ourselves. I have had that for so many [00:33:00] years. So think about it this way. A house that was perfectly designed for a season of life might need renovation, not demolition, not abandonment, just an honest look at what still serves the person or people inside of it just to be able to change and grow.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: The structure wasn't the problem. It just hasn't been updated yet. And the first step in any renovation isn't picking up a sledgehammer and crashing it all to pieces. It's walking through the rooms slowly. Notice what's working, what's quietly stopped working a while ago. It's, for me, recognizing I've had the same painting on my wall for sixteen years that I adored, and it's faded, ridiculously faded, and realizing, "Why didn't I update that?"
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Because it was still working until I recognized it. That's the mindset shift. [00:34:00] Not fix this, not tear it down, not start over. Just walk through the rooms, your rooms, your proverbial rooms, with honest eyes, and allow what's noticed to matter. And there may come a point, maybe not today, maybe not soon, where looking back on a moment like this one feels like the beginning of something that actually changed everything.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Something I've noticed over the years of doing this work, the question that creates the most movement isn't the biggest one. It's usually the quietest question, the one that doesn't demand an answer immediately, but tends to linger into the background of an ordinary Tuesday in a way that eventually becomes impossible to ignore.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: So here's the one I want to leave with this episode. You don't have to answer it right now. You don't have to analyze it or solve it. [00:35:00] I just want you to hold this question in you. Is there something being maintained right now that was built for a version of life that has already changed? That's it. No action required, no timeline, no pressure to know what to do with it.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Just an honest curiosity about what's still running and whether it still fits the person who's running it. Here's what this episode is really about. Not the patterns themselves, not the habits or the routines or the identity that was carefully constructed over the years, the years of working towards something real.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It was about the moment when what was built starts to ask something different of you, and how easy it is to mistake a feeling for being disloyal or restless or confused, when really it might just be a growth [00:36:00] point pressing against a container that hasn't been updated yet. I'll say that again. Pay attention if you're starting to ask questions about where you are, and you have some discomfort that might feel like disloyalty to all the efforts you put together.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: It might just be you're ready to grow out of your present container. And it's not, it's not a character flaw, and it's nothing to be ashamed of, especially if we worked really hard to get to where we are. It's not about being ungrateful for all the effort we put forward. That's what it actually feels like when a life that was built with tremendous intention starts to become more than the original blueprint.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: Does that make sense? We started this with a blueprint. We made tremendous intention and effort. [00:37:00] And suddenly, our life has changed. The blueprint doesn't work anymore, or maybe doesn't quite fit in the complete way. I spent a long time not giving myself permission to say that out loud, to acknowledge that something could be both deeply meaningful, I loved my medical practice, and yet quietly no longer fitting the way it used to.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: That those two things could exist in the same breath without one canceling the other out. Because they can. You can question it. And you might still go back into your previous patterns and habits and behaviors and career or life or house. But I just want you to acknowledge that maybe there's a discomfort is happening.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: So if anything in today's episode created even a small moment of recognition, that recognition is enough for right now. [00:38:00] Nothing needs to be decided. Nothing needs to change today. Just notice, because next week is where this starts to soften. Episode three in this series moves away from pressure and into something quieter.
Dr. Julia Bowlin: What it actually feels like to stop forcing life into a shape that it's outgrown, to release the urgency of having it all figured out, and to begin trusting what's already trying to emerge. If today felt heavy, next week offers a little more room to breathe. Thank you for spending time with me. Until next time, may you be happy, be healthy, and be fulfilled.
Outro: Thank you for listening to Mindset Medicine with your host, Dr. Julia Bowlin. To learn more about Mindset Medicine, go to www.juliabowlinmd.com and connect with Dr. Julia to find out how [00:39:00] our team can help you today. Join us again next week for more expert tips, tools, and strategies to become healthier, wealthier, and wiser in your personal and professional life.
