SubscribeI love this term. I love the connotation that I’m just stuck in the mud and with a little help we can shift the wheels and get rolling again. That it’s not me — well, it is, but it’s really just stuff – muddy stuff getting in my way. (No comments about me just being an old stick-in-the-mud, please. I already KNOW that!!! LOL)
Havi Brooks and her business partner, Selma (yes, she IS a rubber duck — wanna make something of it?!), coined this term, and I think it’s wonderful. Of course, even more wonderful is the image with the Dr. Seussian logo that goes with the name Destuckification Station.
You know how, when you are going along doing your thing and you hit a roadblock (or a mud puddle?) and your frustration rises almost immediately and the only thing you can do is say (or think), “I can’t do this. This is never going to work. I’ll never make it. It’s impossible,” and your blood pressure rises, and and and and? The destuckification station is a process to stop that in its tracks and get you calm and moving again.
I bought it a couple of months ago when I was having some REAL issues at work with panic attacks, and the combination of physical movement (little ones, really – even unnoticeable!) and meditations work immensely well for me. The physical steps that the guide includes remind me that I’ll get through it, and help me hang on until I can get to a quiet place to listen to one of the meditations.
You might like it if:
- You’re stressing out about something and can’t seem to calm down enough to take the steps you want to take.
- You know you react well to guided meditations OR are open to trying them out.
- Like a multi-thread approach to fixing things in your life.
The caveats: Because you know there are some. Even when you love something as much as I love this. It IS guided meditation-based:
- If you know you don’t like quieting down and listening to someone talk you through wherever it is you are, you won’t like this.
- If you find the idea of meditation in general too “woo-woo”, you won’t like this.
- If you think that guided meditations are a way to subliminally sell you more stuff, you’ll probably want to run screaming.
The disclaimer: I joined her partner program. So if you DO buy the Destuckification Station through the link up there (or here, for that matter) I’ll be reimbursed. But I’d be telling you about this even if I hadn’t. 