5 Things To Do If You're Feeling Stuck In Life

In a culture that celebrates progress, achievement, and forward movement, feeling stuck can be extremely uncomfortable. We are taught to push our feelings of stuckness deep down inside of us, allowing them to develop into ambivalence, ruminating thoughts, and anxieties about the future. Instead of ignoring these feelings or trying to think your way out of them, here are five things to do instead the next time you're stuck:

Write down the sensations that you feel in your body in your journal and look for any patterns or consistencies in the information. What you may find is that a particular person, place, experience, or thing is what's keeping you feeling stuck. Becoming aware of your body's unique signals of stuckness and self-betrayal is the first step to creating change.

Become the master observer of your mind by taking note of every time you have a thought that is out of alignment with who you are or what you want in your life. Then, immediately replace the thought with a more positive affirmation of who you are (i.e., "I AM enough") and what you want in your life in the future (i.e., "I HAVE abundance"). I encourage you to either say these statements out loud or write them down in a journal.

When we are stuck and out of alignment with our own truth, it's often because we are engaged in the same routine day in and day out. Mix things up by listening to different music than you usually do, exploring a creative hobby, or learning about something new. Turn off your phone and allow your intuition to direct you. Take note of how it makes you feel.

Pay attention to small moments of ease, dreams, or oddities. Write them down or share them with someone you trust. Try to make sense of them. Learn to trust them. The powers that be (insert "Universe," "God," "spirit" here) have your back if you learn to listen.

Every single person on this planet has felt stuck at some point in their life. When we allow ourselves to share and be vulnerable with people we trust, we create movement and open up the door to new possibilities. (One of your friends may have a prospective job connection for you; another may have a person to set you up on a date with, etc.) Here is one exercise you can use to share your stuckness with someone else and invite change:

Practice listening to your body, paying attention to your thoughts, engaging in wanderlust, looking for signs from the universe, and sharing your stuckness, and the rest will follow.