Why Do We Wait Until We Hit Our Breaking Point to Make Changes?

Date:
April 10, 2025

Author:
Ash Stinson

filed in:
Mind-Body Connection

There’s a one-lane bridge right before you get to my house. It’s in a blind curve and has an entry drive to a winery immediately at one end.

There are no rules; there’s simply a yield sign on both sides and cars approaching it at 45 mph (72 kph), with a tiny widening of the road on either side to pull over if someone’s coming.

We’ve lived here for a few years now, and most of the time, you go over the bridge just fine. It’s not a heavily trafficked road most days (except for winery season). But the moments you meet a car head-on coming from the other direction make you almost pee your pants a little. 

To add to the ominous vibe of this bridge, there are tire marks on both ends where people have slammed on the brakes to get stopped in time to let someone else pass!

I’ve seen a truck drive off the edge and end up upside down in the water, and another car hit the concrete end-wall straight on.

Most days, I don’t give the bridge a second thought, but on the days I approach at the same time as another car, I wonder why it hasn’t been fixed yet.

We Can Create Change Before We Hit Our Breaking Point

The cold, hard reality is that it’s not a big enough problem. It’s gone before the county planning commission, and they…put up another sign. Like if they just tell people to pay more attention, it’ll help. Basically they went the way of inertia and decided it’s not worth spending the time or money to fix.

Inertia tells us that unless acted on by an outside force, things are going to stay the same. A body at rest will remain at rest, a body in motion will remain in motion. 

Sound familiar?

You probably have patterns and habits that play out every day, consciously or unconsciously, living your life with this thing that isn’t really what you want…but it’s not bad enough to change.

Imagine me on my knees yelling dramatically at the sky.  have to hit a breaking point before we do something about it? Before we set aside the time, money, or even energy to shift.

I’m positive there’s behavioral data out there that explains this (beyond physics), but I’m kind of not interested in the explanation.

I’m interested in helping you widen the bridge before you hit the end wall.

Listen to Your Body, Let it Guide.

This is what we do in an Energy Archaeology® session — to help you widen the bridge before you hit your breaking point physically, mentally, and energetically. 

So let’s put your body in the driver’s seat and let it guide.

In the Realms of Embodiment, we’ll explore the places and spaces in your physical energetic anatomy that have a story to tell and need your attention right now. Your body will prioritize the urgent need that your body has been pointing you towards, or in other words, the place where the bridge is too narrow! 

I listen to the way energy is showing up in your bones, muscles, fluids, organs, nervous system, and DNA and use somatic energy work to create an entirely different relationship with your body, your energy, and how you understand your inner and outer world.

If you’re sick of your own shit and ready to do some bridge expansion work, I invite you to explore the Energy Archaeology Session, a 60-90-minute one-on-one energy work session.

If you’re ready for a whole new path with your body as the guide, you’ll want an Embodied Realms Immersion, which is a series of six 1:1 somatic energy work sessions within two to three months.

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