284: What Are You Running From That You Don’t Want to Face? with Shannan Kym

Most of us don't wake up one day and decide to run from ourselves. We learn to through pain, fear, and sometimes simply to survive. And over time, that escape can take many forms: another drink, another achievement, another scroll, another relationship, another reason to stay busy.

In this episode, we talk with Shannan Kym, an internationally award-winning author, TEDx speaker, and transformational mentor, about the ways we escape ourselves and what we're really running from. Drawing from her own experience with childhood abuse, alcoholism, and an unhealthy relationship, Shannan shares how facing the parts of ourselves we've been avoiding can become the beginning of real change.

Together, we explore why temporary relief isn't the same as healing, how stillness can reveal the patterns we've been trying to escape, and why awareness is the first step toward creating a different life. We also unpack identity, self-trust, and what it means to stop running from your pain and start becoming the person you truly want to be.

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In this episode, we explore:

✨ Why we turn to distraction, achievement, and unhealthy habits to escape pain

✨ How the patterns we develop in childhood can shape the lives we create as adults

✨ Why stillness can bring the emotions and limiting beliefs we've been avoiding to the surface

✨ The difference between temporarily feeling better and actually becoming better

✨ How knowing what you want can be the beginning of changing your life