Q: Your book was a big wake up call for me and I want to get real but with a marriage ending and all the craziness going on in the world having a hard time being able to focus...

I feel paralyzed and anxious to get started with it all. What to do?

A: Spoiler alert: It’s already begun. A major identity structure (marriage) is collapsing, external chaos mirrors internal instability, you feel urgency and inability. All this fragments attention, floods the nervous system, and creates the feeling of paralysis exactly how you’re describing. Nothing about that is unusual; it’s all characteristic of Phas…