Claire Weekes

And in order to get through it, rather than wasting all our time trying to find all the quick fixes, hacks, and pushing feelings away, actually looking at what the brain's doing and stuff that we've known for years and years and years is that, you know, we're teaching the brain and the threat response that these things are actually okay.

Hence the birth of things like willful tolerance or surrender or even back to Dr. Claire Weeks, you know, which is, you know, floating.

You're floating through stuff.

You're not resisting.

Don't fix it and watch it change anyway.

So when you hear me talk about words like surrender or willful tolerance, as we talk about undisordered, doing it anyway, floating, accepting, Claire Weeks words, whatever works for you.

When we talk about that, I am suggesting that you use the transient nature of all internal experiences to your benefit.

Like you want to rely on that.

remember that right now? Dr.

Claire Weeks from the 1930s

is also John Sarno is a good one.

And I'm reading a book called like something about happy or something like that.

That all feelings are welcome, that all states are welcome, but behave how you want to feel.

To ride waves, or as Claire Weeks said, float through waves, stuff like that.

We want all experiences and feelings to be acceptable.

But if you struggle with optimization, OCD, and you're bombarded with social media stuff, and even in the wellness and therapy, some therapy spheres, this word regulating, I need to regulate myself.

Someone

says, Claire Weeks said, sag towards the feelings.

Sure.

It could be sag.

I have to like take initiative and get out of this mindset and that I'm going to die and that, you know, my life is over.

Like I can, and like people like you, Claire, I read a lot of like Claire Weeks, I think Weeks is her name.

Yeah.

And so like, I was like already like had like a couple months of like watching success stories, seeing other people that were way worse than me, like make it out the mud.

And guess what? That belief really serves me being like, oh, I see what got me here.

I see these things that come together.

Like you said, when it comes to the Claire Weeks stuff, because she obviously has a huge impact on my work, as well as Paul David.

His book is amazing, At Last to Life, if you guys have not read it.

It was many years ago.

And I would kinda stop in and talk to her and sorta hide in her office a little bit, and she was so kind to me, and she gave me the name of a local psychologist who handed me a book by Dr. Claire Weekes, who was an Australian physician who was writing in the '50s and '60s about this for the public.

And he said, "Here, just read, read this book.

Call me if you need me." And I read it twice in two days.

I'm annoyed as well that it's happening, but I'm kinda aware that this is happening and I was reading, like, Living Untethered where he was talking a lot about this and how to actually move through some of these feelings.

I read another book called Dare and another one called Hope and Help for Your Nerves by Claire Weekes, um, where they kind of like coach you a bit through getting through some of these moments and I would listen to certain passages.

I think there was one in Claire Weekes' books where she talks about, like, the exact moment of when the adrenaline kind of hits and how you should view it and sit with it and all these kind of things.

So I went through a whole period of, of feeling that all the time.

It would happen in bed and I would kind of sit in it and let it happen and, and again it's this, to me it felt like this gradual acceptance that it never...