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Why You Feel Stuck
(And How to Start Moving Forward)
Maybe you keep ending up in the same place, no matter how hard you try. Or maybe the way you've always handled life suddenly stopped working. Either way, being stuck isn't a character flaw. It usually means something you built to survive is still running the show.
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What is inside?
Why old patterns keep pulling you back, and why change feels so hard. The difficulty is not failure.
How survival strategies get mistaken for identity. The habits you call "just how I am" often started as ways to stay safe.
Three questions to see your own patterns clearly, and your first steps in a new direction.
Is this you?
Identity comes apart in a lot of different ways. The event is never the same. The mechanism always is. Something you built yourself on turned out not to be solid ground.
~You keep trying to change the same pattern and end up back where you started.
~The way you've always coped stopped working, and you don't know what replaces it.
~You grew up between countries or cultures and have never had a clean answer to where you are from.
~You moved, or your family did, and the person you were did not survive the move.
~A DNA test told you something about your family that nobody had told you.
~You were adopted, or you found out later that you were.
~You carry a heritage that people cannot see when they look at you.
~A divorce, a diagnosis, a death, or the end of a career took the floor out from under you.
Who is writing this?
I am Bradley Hall. I am a trauma recovery coach and approved coach supervisor with the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaches, and I hold a master's in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
In 2018 a DNA test told me the man I called Dad was not my biological father, and that my biological father had lived near me my whole life and died before I could meet him. I have spent the years since working with people standing where I stood.
This is a hand reaching back down a hill I have already climbed.