Dr. Sue Varma

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And I think that's something that really happens to a lot of women midlife when you were talking about this switch of someone who can so capable.

Yeah.

What's happening and where we're losing self-esteem is that all of a sudden everything seems insurmountable.

And then they get paralyzed.

Totally.

So how can you reduce the magnitude of the problems?

Just the perception of it, right?

and then boosting your sense of can-do-ness, your sense of agency.

So it's that gap that feels so big.

And so there are several ways of doing it is, number one, breaking the task.

I remember my dad's a child psychiatrist, and I remember this trick that he would always do with us.

and it got old after a while i got the point after the first time but you know he would take a stack of those number two pencils that we used to fill out our scantron sheets with right and he would wrap a rubber band around it and if i would tell him my problem he would literally pull out that stack with the wrapper of a brand around and he's like take the stack and i took it from him and he's like break it and i'm like dad there's like 12 pencils what do you want me to break and then he's like break it and i'm like i can't and then he's like i didn't give you any rules do what you want and i was like ah

I get it.

You want me to take out one pencil at a time and break one pencil at a time.

So just ask yourself, what am I doing right now?

Because I do this a lot.

I look at a big problem and I'm like, I can't because there's 40 steps involved.

Right.

So if your plan is I want to commit to an exercise, whatever, forget about figuring out which gym you're going to sign up for.

So there's something called, I don't know if you've heard this term, satisficers or maximizers.

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