136. The Stress of Becoming Someone New | Why Growth Can Feel So Unsettling

136. The Stress of Becoming Someone New | Why Growth Can Feel So Unsettling

March 5, 2026 · 24 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the unsettling feelings that can arise after making progress in personal growth and how to address them.

Feeling unsettled after you’ve made progress? You’re not imagining it, and nothing has gone wrong. It’s normal to expect relief once a problem is solved and then be ambushed by feelings of doubt, restlessness, or hesitation that rush-in just as things begin to improve. Today we build upon ideas from earlier episodes (104 and 105) about stress, now revisited through a new lens. I'm reframing those ideas to a address and conquer the unsteady feeling that crops up once progress is underway. I’m ...

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