Welcome...

I’m so pleased to moderate this pod and hope that together we can support the amazing people here at zaadz to continue being the change they want to see in the world (to paraphrase Ghandi, that is).

My name is Jodi, and you can read more about me at Jodi’s Profile.  But the short version is, I’m a personal and executive coach and helping people move forward (whatever that uniquely means to them) is my greatest passion in life. 

Welcome, welcome, welcome…..

I want to hear what’s getting in your way, what’s dragging you down and what just feels like you’re slogging in circles.  AND…. stuck can sometimes come right after enormous successes when you hit the “what’s NEXT?” point.  So let’s here those too…..

NOW…. Let’s Change The World my gorgeous Pod-lings…….

jodi
Catalyst, Facilitator & Coach
www.jodihume.com

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Hello all! I just wanted to let you know why I joined this pod. It seems like every day we get stuck in our thoughts and that we will always be turning in the wheel of sticking and unsticking.. the process can be fun! Don't worry! As I've gotten older, its much easier, I hardly feel the stickiness. Breathing through it and releasing or embracing emotions, and a general awareness of the depth of our emotions is why I particularly am interested in being unstuck. Nice to meet you all. Rebecca.

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Hello, I also wanted to introduce myself. I'm Leilani and I joined this pod because I can relate to being stuck, then unstuck, stuck, and unstuck again since I left my dead end job in 1998.  I've had a long journey to get where I am today.  My journey started after my father was hospitalized with a major stroke that left him temporarily paralyzed.  My job situation was the worst I've ever seen in life…I never realized the callousness of people until that time period.  And, things just got worse and worse.  People bailed out on me during my time of need, I went through a severe depression.  I encountered the cruelty and meaness of people simply because I decided to stand up for myself.  Then, 9/11 and all those horrible terrorist events hit close to home (I've live near Washington, D.C.)

I went back to college against enormous odds - starting as a community college entrant at 27.  I managed to complete a college degree and enter graduate school.  I went through all types of journals - I had colored coded ones, black, purple, blue, pink, gold, etc. depending on what I was writing about.  All I can say is that during these times of transition I needed support but I couldn't get that support from a traditional group.  I did make it through those transitional times but mainly because I went through non-traditional means.  I spent, what felt like an eternity as if I were in a contemplative existence.  But now, I realize I needed to be seperated from people to find myself.  If I learned something from this whole stuck and unstuck experience, it would that I had to sift through who I was without all that background noise.  Being alone - I learned what I value the most and what I want to do.  I had to tell people that this is my life and this is what I'm doing. 

So, I'm glad to be here and know that I'm not alone in my experiences.  Thank you.

Leilani

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Hi, I'm Ariel and I am excited to come upon this pod..I need to catch up and read all these posts and then I'll jump in:):)

Peace and Blessings,

Ariel  

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Hi, I'm Lisa.  Thank you Jodi for starting this pod.  I can relate to so many of the things shared by our friends on this pod.  I was stuck for a very long time, but I didn't know it.  At age 41 I felt I had lost all hope and began praying for death to release me from this life.  I checked myself into the psychiatric ward, and through a series of “fortunate” events, was led to an amazing group of doctors and friends who helped me climb out of the hole in which I was stuck.  Some members of my family became my biggest supporters (my dad), others could not, or would not, accept the transformation that was necessary for my survival.  Through it all, my boyfriend was at my side-through the “worst” my life had seen.  Now, however, things have changed.  I quit my life-sucking job of 22 years to go back to school.  I am currently attending community college and loving every minute of it!  I am very excited about the path my life is taking at the moment.  Unfortunately, my relationship with the man in my life seems to be approaching a “stuck” point.  That is what bought me to this pod.  We have been together over three years.  I sense he is having a hard time accepting the “new me” and would prefer the woman I was when I was stuck.  I know now that I have to be true to myself, even if that means an end to this relationship.  Things between us are up in the air right now, but I'm doing better each day.  I feel this is what living life is all about.  We go through this life encountering situations in which we are faced with choices.  My whole life I was a caretaker and put myself last-if I thought of myself at all.  I have learned this is not a healthy way to live.  Now that I have started taking care of me, some in my life (my boyfriend, my mother) cannot accept who I am.  That is sad and I pray for them, but I will not let that drag me down.  I may face loss, but in the end when a door is closed a window is opened.    

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I'm ValerieAnne and I need to get UNSTUCK.  But I'm tired of whining about being stuck and what's keeping me stuck. (my career, my weight, being a working mom)

 I think I'm going to stay in the “the waiting place” until I

• start doing a better job where I am
• forgive
• choose what I want
• or maybe follow the clues that will lead me to my purpose.

I have been reading about Intention or Manifesting but I don't know what I want. So I think I have to choose happiness and gratitude until the time is right to make changes. There must be a reason why I'm still stuck here….

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Thank You,

 As for my first visit to this pod, this sounds like an interesting topic of which I am at the moment relating.  I am getting unstuck, 4 years worth of depletion and stagnation.  I am at the beginning point, 1 month & 1/2 into turning my life around.  It's a good feeling, not yet stable, to be getting unstuck, to making changes. 

Aum, Namaste                                                                                                                                   -YogiAumProphecy

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How I'm Getting Unstuck:

 So here's how I'm going about becoming unstuck.  I'm triathlon training with intention and purpose.  Originally to fundraise for Leukeimia, MS, and Mental Illness.  Healing myself through training and completion heals others who are suffering, through charity. 

 Tremendous results thus far.   I'll continue to keep you informed on this pod as the process of becoming unstuck evolves in and of itself.

Aum, Blake

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Thank you for letting me join you.  Ifeel good and welcome about it.  I have major energy blocked in my spine also causing me a lot of pain.  I'm a Buddhist practitioner although I see no probs with seeking other self help methods.  Yes, stuck! is certainly the word and even meditation has grown stagnate.  I live in a rural area and classes are far away and not affordable for me.  When I noticed thiis pod I am very excited and certainly can appreciate the information exchange u offer.  Let me say I find it a very noble thing you young people are doing and I'm very proud of you all!

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hi all
as i read through this post i started thinking… hay i know what these people mean, yea!!! it's not just me feeling like this.
i am trying to get unstuck, i have been for  a few years now and just as i get a major bit of stuck unstuck i find another that needs dealing with, so here i am. at present i am stuck on the family relationship thing, they seem to be having a hard time accepting me as a person rather than the dogs body. for the first time in years i put myself first realising that if i am not functioning properly then nothing around me has a chance. my kids especially are finding it very hard to accept that there are now boundries in place, i know it's about balancing the change out so we all find a role that is right for us, but i am stuck in the place where it feels like you take 2 steps fowards and 3 back. and i am finding that the little things.. important little things like meditation are starting to fall by the wayside to give space for the unsticking, and it's not working :'( i know it will given time though.
i feel i am now rambeling so i will leave you all in peace. i so look foward to meeting you all
blessings spiritreborn73

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Hi everyone! Call me Verily. It means truly or very much so. Which I am . Anything that I am, I am very much so. Anyway I have had a magical life full of miracles and spiritual awakenings. Truly I can't complain but here I am anyway, STUCK. I am a 39 yr old. Single, disabled mother. Two of my children have some mental challenges of their own. They are boys 16 and 18. I also have an eight yr old daughter progressing normally. Believe it or not none of these thing are why I am stuck (though have been at times). I have learned to grow from these experiences. The problem is that it seems to me that for a while now EVERYTHING has gone awry. I realize that there must be a lesson for me in all this but I'm so busy hurting I can't see the miracle yet.

One of my disabilities was a sleep disorder that I dealt with for many years. I couldn't stay awake. Well finally it is being treated and I decided to finish my education (which I had started many years ago). I applied, registered for and got the classes I wanted, paid for and went to orientation, And applied for the disability tuition waiver (as they have no low income tuition waiver here).

Meanwhile, my mothers health deteriorated (partly due to the way she treats her body) and even though I am disabled (I have a lot of bone and back problems), I found myself the only one in the house who was doing any contributing to the upkeep. Needless to say I got behind because I can't do the work of a person without my challenges. What upset me the most about this situation was that my mom's only duty was the kitchen. I did laundry, shopped , cooked and whatever else there was to do. When she couldn't do her part anymore but she could walk to the store for cigs, I decided I couldn't live like that. I asked her to move out (I didn't kick her out I explained that I couldn't do the work of five people while I was going to school.) She did go and things are a little easier there. Except for financially as she had more income per person.

While I'm trying to take care of things at home and get my kids to appointments and such , I'm also taking placement tests, going to orientation and tons of school related things. I called to fins out if there was anything else that they needed for my tuition waiver to be approved and they said it was denied because I was a “non-degree seeking student”. I was not and they said it didn't matter they wouldn't be looked at again until spring semester. So basically I can't go this semester. I know it probably doesn't seem like much but I cried for days. I really wanted to get started. I HAD MY CLASSES! Now I have to drop my classes and try again next semester.

That is just one way that I'm stuck. I've been trying to get that peace of mind back that I used to have. For instance there was a time (when I had a car) that if my car broke down I would just hitchhike out of there and get it towed all smiles and that's life. Now, I have so many proverbial cars breaking down, I'm finding peace of mind difficult at best.

Sorry to go on like this, but really Zaadzters are the only ones that I have to talk to. At least until I get into school and get some peers. Thank you to any who read this and double for any replies. I know there's some of you who can totally relate.

Love and Light to All,

Verily

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Oh my gosh!  Un-stuck?!?  I have never heard it put that way, but it is perfect!  Stuck.  That's how I feel.  Un-stuck- the act or doing not just thinking.  I ready to be un-stuck.  Please let me know if I can be a supportive voice to anyone looking to free themself of “stuckism”.  Be well!

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Stuck, hhhmm that is an excellent way to describe the relationship I have had with my ego. Like 'glue' more 'crazyglue' than bondo, my spirit was suffocated by the need to fuel my ego-driven desires. It left me in a fog for a long while, I think its beginning to clear. My 42nd birthday is near the end of July and I am only looking forward to it as another year made through the b.s. I have put myself into. My own stubborness kepts me more stuck before, but  as I realize clearer and clearer that some things are just completely out of my control,  I am not made to drown in the quickstand I myself ventured into, I can get out, I feel alot better.

It is all about the way we perceive, I suppose …

To have finally become an Enlightenment Advisor, coaching via the computer to individuals on strengthening their own bridges, I believe I have left my bridges to deteriorate. I work hard, play hard, fall in love hard and stay there, and take time out for myself hard. It is my stubborn streak and instead of fixing me, I want to fix everyone else. That is really stuck, more like stuck on stupid. No one can be helped unless they want to be helped, but I can help myself because I want to help myself. 

I am going through yet another very rough patch in the relationship/romance department and no doubt I am stuck in how good it used to feel instead of spiritually addressing how bad it really does feel. But it shall soon pass, things will come around on the jukebox and erica will shine again with or without the man she loves at her side …

And how has your year been everyone ?