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Why It Gets Harder Before It Gets Better - The Emotional Cycle of Change
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Two months before the Missouri River 340, we lost the boat.
High water, a headwind we hadn't planned for, and a log. My partner Joe and I spent forty-five minutes in the river swimming for a dike while my canoe went downstream with my sunglasses and my Bose speaker. We walked back down the Katy Trail covered in mud with paddles in our hands and nothing else.
That night we were done. Not weighing our options. Done.
This episode is about what happened next, and about the curve that explains it. The Emotional Cycle of Change was mapped in the 1970s and it has five stages, and…
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