In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes

You left the job, or the friendship, because of how you were treated, and now the same thing is starting again somewhere new. That isn't fate and it isn't something you deserve. Almost everybody has one situation that keeps repeating, and changing your circumstances doesn't stop it, because you're the one thing that comes with you to every new place. I explain why the patter...

You're waiting to hear about something important, and not knowing how it'll turn out is keeping you awake at night. Nothing's wrong with you for finding this hard. Most of us were never taught what to do with the feeling of not knowing, so we check our phones, make plans for every outcome and ask everyone what they think. The relief lasts a few minutes, and then the feeling c...

Everything written about burnout assumes you can stop. Take a sabbatical, book the trip, step back for a while. And you're reading it at ten at night with people depending on you and no version of your life where that's available. This is the useful version, and it turns out a week away was never what would have fixed it.

You said yes again to someone, and you didn't want to say yes. You knew it while you were saying it. This one is about what happens on the rare occasions you do say no, and the guilt that arrives afterwards, because that guilt is what keeps the whole pattern going. It turns out to be measuring something quite different from what you assume.

You sat down with a book last night, got through about three pages, and then your hand went to your phone. You weren't bored. You just couldn't stay. A lot of people have started to worry that their memory is going or their mind is slipping, and that's almost never what this is. This one explains what's actually happening, and what you can do about it.