Women often try to "stop over-thinking things" when really, that phrase is a placeholder that diminishes vision and ideas. The cry to stop-overthinking things needs to be better understood.

To solve the problems the world faces, we need to step out of the binary thinking of patriarchy--and that means we need to look for the nuance.

Without a doubt, it’s not helpful to try to bypass negative feelings--but it’s also not helpful to write off possibilities when changing a negative mindset. Changing a negative mindset isn’t possible if you aren’t willing to own the fact that you feel stuck. At first, changing a negative mindset feels like a ton of work. With time, seeing what more is possible can become a habit.

When others are uncomfortable with themselves, they’ll hide themselves--and ask us to do the same. But we don’t have to play into that pattern. In this episode, I’m talking about embracing who you are, despite the possibility of others criticizing.