Are you winning the over-thinker of the year award?


Hey, Reader

I used to run into a really annoying problem.

...people thinking blanket advice is helpful.

So, for example, if someone is really having a hard time motivating themselves to exercise in the morning, that person does not need the blanket advice from well-intentioned humans who say things like "it's OK to stay in bed! That's also a form of self care."

Sure, that answer is right. But not for that person. And not in that situation. Sorry Charlie.

Hearing people approach other people with bullshit blanket advice that clearly doesn't work got me to begin teaching the masculine/feminine paradox, and also led me to this deep understanding that Western minds have trouble with paradox; two opposite things can be true at the same time. Also, something that is true can also not be true at the same time.

In the book Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: On Living the Wisdom of the Tao, Wayne Dyer writes:

"Paradoxical thinking is embedded in Eastern concepts such as yin and yang or the feminine and the masculine, and where things are comfortably described as both this and that. We in the West, by contrast, tend to view opposites as incompatible concepts that contradict each other.”

A LOT of the overthinking lies in the idea that we view things as contradictions instead of "yes, and." If we could only learn how to appropriately use this concept: "It depends."

What I've been doing over the last six months is putting together a course that has some pretty powerful reframes around the Western "production-obsessed" ideologies.

While I love "producing," the concept of always doing so completely omits the divine feminine part of the paradox that is the ultimate formula for living a reasonable life.

I don't believe in floating away without desire. On the contrary: I am like the Kabbalists in that I believe desire is so, so spiritual. And to get free into a place where you can embrace your desire just takes a little tweaking of the mind.

SO, the "End Your Overthinking" course will be available this July.

This is for the human who has done everything everyone else told them to do for just about ever, and, surprise, "it isn't working."

You might have bought the lie of standardized education and corporate America, or you built your own business on a structure that mimicked corporate America, and now you're angry, burned out, and want to be able to stop living in analysis paralysis.

I'll be keeping you updated as I put the finishing touches on it. I am currently in my second re-make of it and I'm waiting for feedback from my people before the official release.

In the meantime, if there's a pattern of overthinking you can't seem to get out of, and you want to let me know, reply to this email. I'd love to hear what's on your mind.

Stay beautiful, and you'll hear from me soon

-Andee

Andee Scarantino at Get the F*ck Off

I'm a Mindset and Transformational coach on a mission to make personal development digestible. I'm the creator of getthefuckoff.com - lotus information for non-lotus people. Spiritual life coach whose website is routinely flagged as porn 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣🧘🏻‍♀️ Whoops

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