You Can Handle Anything with Shira Gura

"There was an incident at school today."

The last thing any parent wants to hear.

I started to feel my heart pounding outside of my body.

And all I wanted to do was protect my son from being scarred …

"But mom, it's not fair!" said my son.

And you know what, he was right!

It wasn't fair.

And I got stuck on trying to protect him so that he wouldn't have to feel the pain of living through something …

We get stuck when we are set in our patterned ways of seeing and doing things.

Children can teach us a thing or two regarding adapting to life's challenges.

Tune in to this week's episode and see wha…

Freedom: It's what getting unSTUCK is all about.

Do you know that when you get into "stuck" spots, your brain will have the best intentions of protecting you, but may, at the same time, unconsciously…

Simply because you want someone in your life to do something, doesn't mean he/she will or even needs to.

It is not your job in this world to create a rule book for others to live by.

And you cannot d…

I think I was feeling depressed.

Or at least, I was feeling disconnected from my community.

This happens to me sometimes in the winter, when I tend to hibernate during the cold and rainy days.

But, I…

Rockets are shooting down! I'm afraid!

A Getting unSTUCK podcast listener wrote to me asking for my perspective and insight on her fear of a recent launching of rockets into southern Israel where sh…

All I wanted to do was shop for some clothes!

Sometimes we can easily get stuck on taking these personally, even though the person who "hurt us", had no intentions of doing so.

("Hurt us" is in quota…

It is so easy to get stuck on insult.

When people say things in a way that can be construed as hurtful, our minds can't see any other way of being, except to take things personally.

Yet, getting stuc…

Have you ever had the experience where something happened to you and you are convinced it should NOT have happened?

Do you have the feeling of wanting to turn back the clock?

Change the past?

In this…

What does Jim Carey, the star of The Truman Show, have to do with Getting unSTUCK?

Tune in to this week's episode and learn about how Truman Burbank epitomizes what it means to get unSTUCK as he demo…

All my husband wanted to do was zone out for a few minutes and watch some T.V.

All I wanted to do was get my son to sleep.

There the conflict began.

Because what did my son want to do?

Watch T.V. wit…

We either get stuck in the past or stuck in the future.

There are really only two choices.

When we get stuck in the past, we get stuck on a story that already happened.

Whether it was a second ago, 5…

Sometimes we put ourselves down, not because of any outside force, but because:

1. Either we believe it ourselves, or
2. We believe someone else may be thinking it.

Either way, that belief of defining yo…

There is a difference between taking action and keeping busy.

When you take action, you work towards a goal.

When you keep busy, you may not necessarily be direction-oriented.

Even if you create or p…

I hired myself a coach last week.

It was the best decision in 2017.

I feel aligned, happy, excited and ready to take on 2018.

I got stuck on not wanting to hire a coach and this not only held me back…

One way to get unSTUCK and evolve into a newer version of yourself is by visioning.

Different from goal setting, this is a practice of actually seeing yourself AS your new self.

This takes courage, b…

We do not live our lives in a vacuum.

We are who we are in this world because of the experiences and people we come into contact with.

The S.T.U.C.K. Method wasn't created in a bubble, but rather fro…

Often times when we get "stuck", we are blinded from reality and often times lose faith to what the future can hold.

Tune in to this week's episode to hear a story of how considering faith gave me th…

When we are in a "stuck" spot, we can self-sabotage the joy that can otherwise be experienced in any given moment.

Whether we are stuck on anger, anxiety, fear, frustration, disappointment, desire, d…