Overdoing it is ingrained in our culture. So how do you go against the grain?

In this latest episode, host Lauren Lowrey takes you on a journey through our American obsessions with doing too much. Get the deets on how our nation compares to other countries when it comes to work-life (im)balance. Plus, what questions to ask yourself so you can DO LESS. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You're chronically doing too much.
• Your self-worth was based on how much you can produce.
• You bought into the equation that HARD WORK makes you A GOOD PERSON

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Lauren detailing why Americans are so obsessed with overdoing it. Lauren takes you way back to the Mayflower to show how pilgrims laid a lasting foundation for American society. Even to this day, we see the impacts 

• [4:26] But something changed in the digital age. Our obsession with work was accelerated and Lauren explains how.
• [11:26] Lauren walks you through the quantifiable disengagement happening in workplaces all over America and how it compares to other countries.
• [13:38] Tiny sneak-peak into what's coming up next for AMPstigator as Lauren details how she's taking her own medicine.

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:27 - Lauren details how this episode is structured

1:34 - Our American history (Hard work = Heaven)

3:09 - Individualists vs Collectivists 

4:26 - How the digital age accelerated our need to DO

7:03 - How the digital age has changed broadcast TV

8:12 - How "Just Do It" fueled the fire

9:30 - How this negatively impacts us

11:22 - We're seeing quantifiable disengagement in the workplace 

12:33 - World Happiness Report

13:38 - Lauren's taking her own medicine on doing less

🗈 Show Notes 🗈

Ep. 31 At what cost? (When doing it all nearly kills you) [Spotify | Apple] 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website

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Wait, you want me to face my pain!?! Woof!

In the latest AMPstigator episode FACE IT, host Lauren Lowrey teaches you that once you've experienced trauma, the pain doesn’t go away. It just blends with you over time. The difficulty in processing the trauma comes from your inability to move forward. 

After we experience pain, we spend our lives trying to return to status quo. We try to get back to who we were before that pain. But we have to realize: We were literally changed by the pain and the person we were is gone.

In this episode, she shares 6 steps to FACE your pain and accept yourself for who you've become. 

 
💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You've experienced any bit of pain that you can't seem to face
• You're ready to try something new to process your problems
• When you think about a particular thing that happened in your life, you can't help but cry

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Lauren sharing a recent experience getting her annual blood work. Everything was perfect until the rubber tourniquet around her arm triggered a major MAMMA JAMMA trauma response. Whoa, Nelly! Didn't see that coming! She shows how tears indicate unhealed pain and why you need to FACE IT!

• [3:13] Lauren shares the PARADOX in trying to heal. Once you've experienced something, it's literally part of you. You are different so you need a different approach. 
• [4:59] Why does talking-it-out work so well? It's literally a well-studied psychological foundation of Cognitive Based Therapy (CBT).
• [8:57] Lauren shares the steps you can take to begin to FACE IT in your own life. Her 6 suggestions include kicking judgment to-the-curb, stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and implementing a gradual exposure.  

 Plus, how you'll know when the healing is all done!

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:27 - Lauren experiences her first MAMMA JAMMA trauma trigger

2:44 - Working to heal and facing your fear

3:13 - How pain becomes part of you

4:59 - Research around healing trauma, Cognitive Based Therapy (CBT)

6:52 - The root of the phrase "face it" 

8:57 - How you can FACE IT in your own life 

10:34 - Getting a re-do on a trauma trigger

🗈 Show Notes 🗈

Ep. 31 At what cost? (When doing it all nearly kills you) [Spotify | Apple]

Understanding PTSD, National Institutes of Health

Ep. 56 The 7 surprising things that started happening when I meditated 2hrs/day [Spotify | Apple] 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website

AMPstigator on Youtube

AMPstigator Instagram

Lauren's Instagram

We look for reflections everywhere - in our friends, on our social feeds, in our work - but when do we ever see who we really are? In this episode of 2 Words that will Change Your Life, host Lauren Lowrey shows you how cameras give the ultimate reflection. 

Listen as she shares stories from her own life as she learned how to be her true self. 

 
💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You've ever seen a picture or video of yourself and said 'that doesn't look like me'
• You need help seeing your true self but can't find a good reflection
• You're curious about Lauren's methods using cameras for solid self-reflection

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website

AMPstigator on Youtube

AMPstigator Instagram

Lauren's Instagram