The stuckness is never about the task聽
It is about what you learned to hide to survive in spaces that were never designed for you to thrive.
"I have the ideas, the data, and the stories. But I am frozen. I cannot get any of it onto the page."
"I no longer want to hide behind concepts and jargon. I want to bring an embodied, urgent and yet unhurried approach to my writing."
"I feel burned out and am not sleeping well. The lack of sleep is making me foggy and I waste time feeling overwhelmed and crying at my desk with my office door closed."
These are some things my mentees tell me regularly.
Now let's focus on you. Which of the following statements are true for you?
If you said yes to even one statement, then I will tell you what I say to my mentees:
The freeze is not the issue. Somewhere along the line you learned to hide, play small, and be invisible as a survival strategy. But it hasn't brought you safety. Your desire to stay hidden by playing small still doesn't protect you. You still experience stress, anxiety, and vulnerability.
You're frozen because it is a learned behavior of self-preservation. But it is doing the opposite of preservation. It is creating self-sabotage.
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What is staying frozen costing you?
If this question created anxiety, you already know: the time is now to walk through the door that is open for the version of you that is ready to stop hiding.
What would unthawed momentum feel like? Especially when you're not fragmenting yourself?
The Fragmented Self
It is 9:04am. You open your document and realize you have to understand where you left things off. It overwhelms you to read through a lot before you can even begin to write. At 9:10am you close the document and start doing dishes.
The Aligned Self
It is 9:04am. You open your Grand Project Narrative document. It lists the work you did last time and where you need to start today. Energized, you begin the work.
The Fragmented Self
You write a sentence that sounds similar to a theoretical paper you read and cited. But it does not carry your voice, spirit, and soul. You experience some resentment for having to perform in a masked or fragmented way.
The Aligned Self
You read theoreticians who write from embodied perspectives. Activated, you write a poignant, embodied theorization that is resonant for your readers. You experience joy for not writing from a fragmented self.
The Fragmented Self
You write a sentence that says what you actually think. You read it back. You second-guess yourself and think it is trash. You hear your advisor in your head. Then your committee. Then the reviewer who tore apart your last paper. You change the sentence to what you think will be palatable. You do this 47 times in one paragraph. You are not happy. You are stressed. You hope you have done enough.
The Aligned Self
You write a sentence that honors your wisdom and knowledge. You read it back and the voices of inner doubt ring loud in your head. You smile at them. You say, "I am aligned with my framework." You keep writing. You have just co-opted an academic structure for your benefit. Your paragraph is uniquely voiced with your sensibilities.
You smile.
This is a retreat where you get honest with yourself.
You stop hiding. You stop fragmenting.
Unfreeze me.What This Is
Getting Unstuck is where you learn to write, think, and work from the self you were told to hide.
Across three days, you will work on the project that has been frozen. You will practice the shifts you saw in the Before and After pairs. You will be given specific methods for reentry, for working with the voices of inner doubt, for writing from your sensibilities rather than around them.
Getting Unstuck is for graduate students, postdocs, untenured and tenured faculty, and independent scholars. It is for the academic who has the training, the material, and the desire. Your stuckness is about something older than the project itself.
You will leave with your Grand Project Narrative document started. You will leave with a reentry method you can use for the next project and the one after that. You will leave knowing how to stand in your own framework while you co-opt academic structures for your own benefit. You will leave with momentum.
"This process has been positively transformative. I suspect as I look back on my career twenty years from now, this will be a pivotal moment in my personal and professional timeline. The biggest challenge I brought was writer's block, and I left feeling like that block had been chipped away at and dislodged."
Dr. Kiersten Greene
Associate Professor and Director, Childhood Education
Hunter College, CUNY
Here is what happens across the three days.
What happens across the three days
