Episode 86: Train Your Body, Train Your Mind — How Physical Discomfort Builds Emotional, Psychological, & Cogni...

This week’s conversation is all about how physical discomfort can enhance our capacity to tolerate emotional, psychological, and cognitive discomfort. Specifically, we’re asking the question:  Why is pushing outside your comfort zone on a regular basis important?
 
Topics discussed include:
 
- Practicing physical discomfort
- How Crossfit helped Tracey gain confidence to get divorced
- How long distance running helped Cayly get through the initial phases of starting a business
- Physical discomfort and limiting beliefs
- Why therapy is supposed to be uncomfortable some of the time
- Why discomfort is necessary for change
- Letting children be uncomfortable to build resilience
- How Cayly’s dad pushed her towards to discomfort and why she’s so thankful for these lessons
- Discomfort and self-compassion enhance each other
- Why it can be helpful to have a coach to push us into discomfort and help us find our limits
- When therapy becomes enabling
- The limits of discomfort are different for different people on different days
- When discomfort becomes detrimental — chronic stress
- Cognitive discomfort and being tolerant of opinions that differ from our own
- Why having your opinions challenged/influenced is so uncomfortable
- Why nothing shocks Tracey and Cayly at this point in their practices and why they like to explore the dark and twisty stuff with their clients/patients
- Voluntary vs. involuntary discomfort
- Why it’s important not to rescue our children or partners from discomfort
- And more!
 
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Resources:
Ruth Rodgers of Intrepid Athletics PDX (https://intrepidpdx.pike13.com/staff_members)
Episode 85 on Resistance (http://organicacupunctureportland.com/curious-curiouser-podcast-episode-85-resistance-rejection-how-anxiety-can-help-you-grow/)
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735224897?ie=UTF8&tag=caylymarisa0e-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0735224897)
You Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1544512287?ie=UTF8&tag=caylymarisa0e-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=1544512287)
Interview with David Goggins on Finding Mastery with Michael Gervais (https://findingmastery.net/david-goggins/)
My interview on Strength of TCM podcast with Kenton Sefcik, R.Ac. (https://sotcm.podbean.com/e/episode-twenty-four-guest-podcast-cayly-christensen/)
Tracey’s interview on the Widowed Parent podcast (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jenny-lisk/the-widowed-parent-podcast/e/57795903)