Shauna Pearson

Drama kind of follows them around because they're somewhat unconsciously not attracted in a good way, but it's almost like a magnet.

Like they're just drawn to it because of the stimulus that

It's engaging.

It's exciting.

It keeps us engaged.

It turns on our brain.

And it helps us feel balanced on some level, even though it can be and it usually is negative.

So it's really important to if you if this is like something that

that you tend to fall into it's just really good to know and then you can start to realize okay we love stimulus we love the quote-unquote dopamine hits and always being like on because when you know people who are in like this drama state they're on right they're not they're not like half asleep when they're telling you about it they're usually like angry or excited there's like a high emotion that goes along with it and so

If it's you and you do this or someone who does, there are ways, I would say, to replace the negative.

drama and the negative stimulus for things that are more positive.

And you have to do that intentionally.

But if you intentionally replace it, and we do this with our clients every single week, this is like one of the big things we do because we can't just have an empty space.

Because if you have an empty space in your life, you're going to fill it with something.

And usually it's not a great thing that you'll fill it with.

So we intentionally create it with something positive.

So you have that positive mental and emotional engagement.

instead of the typical drama that you tend to follow or that tends to follow you and so slowly it's not that slowly actually it would usually only takes a few months not a few years a few months you'll start to see that as you're intentionally putting positive stimulus into your life it starts to take over the negative

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