From Self-Help Books To Real Change Through Action

About this episode

Linda Lamb discusses the importance of self-awareness and action in creating real change, contrasting it with the limitations of self-help books.

Autopilot can look like productivity, but it feels like stuck. My guest, Linda Lamb, brings a refreshingly direct take on what finally creates change: self-awareness plus action over time. She shares what it was like to spend years doing workshops and reading personal development books, yet feeling the same patterns keep repeating and why “knowing” the concepts still isn’t the same as living them. We get into the deeper layer many of us avoid: trauma and the coping strategies we normal...

People in this episode

Host: Brenda McGregor

Guest: Linda Lamb

Topics covered

• self-awareness
• action
• personal development
• trauma
• change

Keywords

• self-help
• productivity
• trauma
• coping strategies
• personal growth

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