Stress Therapy Classics ~ What To Do When Everyone Is Driving You NUTS!
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It’s a special edition Stress Therapy Session! Since I am on a break, we are going to revisit one of my all time favorite Stress Therapy episodes, “What To Do When Everyone Is Driving You Nuts! Plus, it has one of my favorite meditations as well…Train Station Imagery Meditation. Enjoy! And I’ll see you next week for the 100th episode of Stress Therapy! It will be a special holiday edition of Stress Therapy.Ever notice times in your life when for some reason, all of the sudden everyone is driving you nuts?? Nothing seems to be going right and everyone is annoying or wrong or just plain crazy. Today, we’ll go over what might be going on with you when this is happening and exactly what to do to fix it. Super excited about our “Train Station Meditation” today as well. 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Check out the show notes to connect with me, The Stress Therapist on social media or go to http://www.ilovetherapy.com/ to find out about meditation classes & meditation and yoga retreats.TRANSCRIPT:[00:00] Hey, beautiful people. [00:01] I'm on a break. So today you're going to be listening to one of my alltime favorite stress therapy episodes. And next week, I will be back to join you in celebrating are you ready for this? The 100th episode of stress therapy. Yes, it's going to be great. But for now, relax and settle in and listen up because your stress therapy special edition session, what to do when everyone is driving you nuts, is about to begin right now. Hey, beautiful people. [00:44] It's time for some stress therapy, a podcast about how to meditate and get better at stress for people living in the real world. Finally, a place to park my 25 plus years of experience of working as a psychotherapist in the mental health field. And now, your host, me, the stress therapist, Sherry Flake. [01:13] Before we get into this of it, we're going to take a teensy tiny break. [01:17] Be right back. Hey, beautiful people. [01:21] Are you ever looking around and just thinking, oh, my gosh, everyone is nuts, everyone is driving me crazy? Today, I'm going to tell you exactly what's going on, when this is going down and how to fix it. It's season six on stress therapy, all the little secrets that this psychotherapist wants you to know. So relax and settle in and listen up because your stress therapy session is. [01:45] About to begin right now. [01:59] Hey, you beautiful people. [02:01] It's time for some stress therapy, a podcast about how to meditate and get better at stress for people living in the real world. Finally, a place to park my 25 plus years of experience of working as a psychotherapist in the mental health field. And now, your host, me, the stress therapist, Sherry Flake. Hey, beautiful people, what's happening? [02:31] Okay. So have you ever had the experience where everywhere you look, every person you talk to, every situation you're in, you're convinced that everyone is nuts, they're all just driving you absolutely crazy and that no one is getting it, no one understands you, everyone is annoying, no one is kind like you're just getting it and getting it. And everywhere you turn it's just going poorly no matter what. I totally get it. I had a day like this like a week ago and I was like, oh, my gosh. And I was lucky it was only for a day, right? Sometimes it lasts and lasts. And here's the bummer. Okay? So now before I get into it, I just want to ask you a question that everyone has been asking me lately. And the question is, have you seen the show Shrinking, right, where this guy is a psychotherapist and he just throws it all out. He throws out all of his clinical knowledge and he just starts telling all of his clients things that are not ready to hear, things that aren't even really that kind but he thinks might really help them in the long run anyway. And he's dealing with his own struggles, of course. But the point of it is, here's the thing that I kind of wish that I could say to my clients who come to me with this problem and what I had to realize for myself when I too was having this problem, because no one is spared of this awful feeling that no one gets you. Everything's sucking and everyone is sucking. And here's the thing. When everyone is driving you nuts, not one person, not one situation, not one decision, not one day, not one event, but everyone is driving you crazy. It's not them, it's you. That's the bad news. And when I was on a retreat once, a long, long time ago, one of the retreat leaders played this video of Pema Trojan. I'll put it in the show notes. It's amazing. She is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and what makes her so lovely and relatable, well, according to me, is that she's American and she was a householder, she used to be married, and before she became a monk, she was a lot like you and me, right? And she's just so sweet and she presents her lessons in such a relatable way. And this video was only like a minute long. And again, I'll put it in the show notes for you. But she starts talking about being on retreat. And I'm leaving today to go on retreat. By the way, I'm going to be going to the Ignatius house here in Atlanta. It's really close. Usually I go kind of far and usually I go kind of long. This is like a half hour from my house and it's only going to be three days. It is going to be silent, which would be nice, but it's very short. So she starts talking about being on retreat and it can be kind of annoying to be on retreat because you can't talk and all of these noises are going on and on. And I've done podcasts about being on retreat and maybe when I come back, I'll cover that again. But you're with all these people and your brain is just so busy trying to judge and figure everybody out without talking to anybody, right? Like, you can't talk to anybody. And depending on the retreat, you renunciate your phone, you can't read, you can't write, you can't even take pictures with your phone. They really want you to just face yourself, man, and listen to what your thoughts are saying and listen to the listener and separate yourself from your thoughts and realize that you're not your thoughts. But your ego is just so obsessed with trying to label everybody. And of course, at the end of the retreat, you realize everything you thought about everyone was wrong. But she's sitting at the retreat and she's like, oh, this person, they're taking this too seriously. And that person's cologne is so strong. And they're not supposed to wear any oils in the retreat room or pardon me, in the meditation hall, and that person's driving me nuts, and this person's too noisy and all this stuff. And then she describes the idea that a lot of us are just going around this Earth, and we all know someone like this. I mean, I am thinking of particular person in my life right now when I say this that just is constantly going around and little by little, with every single thing that's driving them nuts, they're trying to fix it, address it, get mad about it, express anger about it, confront it, whatever. And they go around and go and around and go around and do this over and over and over. And Pema says, I actually have a. [07:10] Plant in my kitchen named Pema because I love her so much, but she. [07:15] Know they're going around the Earth and. [07:17] They'Re trying to cover everything in leather. [07:20] So everywhere they step, they don't get burned. And really, if you just cov