Gemma Speig
speaker
1,085 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 May
Gemma Speig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Doom scrolling or distraction feels like something's changing because the hard feelings are being quieted for a
They're kind of going away.
It's just turning down the volume.
We have to get into this creation mindset, which we're going to talk about in a second.
But there's some other things that you are probably doing that aren't good for you being in this funk.
The second one is self-isolating.
It feels like the easiest thing in the world, right?
To doom scroll, but also to self-isolate, especially since, let's be honest, when we're in a funk, people are just really annoying.
Even the people you love most, you just don't want them in your space because your entire nervous system is already being like repeatedly graded by life like a freaking cheese grater.
But you need to fight that urge to push people aside and to withdraw from them and realize this is what this, you have to realize it for what it is, which is your brain is trying to avoid stimulation, friction, and oversaturation of any kind.
The problem is this instinct becomes self-reinforcing.
Social withdrawal reduces opportunities for positive reinforcement, like connection, like laughter, like support.
And that in itself would provide proof that life is better than you think it is.
But when we are withdrawing, we're essentially shutting down opportunities for life to give us evidence for its own goodness.
I do think it's important to acknowledge that sometimes we don't want to see others and we don't want to be around others because of feelings of shame that arise from being in a funk.
Definitely in today's hyperproductive society, always working, always hustling, always making big moves, always happy.
You know, sometimes we don't want to be the buzzkill.
You don't want to be the one who's like throwing that off.
But it's unrealistic to think that we will always be like that.
And something I've been saying to myself more and more is that giving people the opportunity to love you through ugly seasons of life is a gift to them as much as it is a gift to you.
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