The world spent years telling you what to think. Today, we talk about how to think and why learning this one skill changes everything. I'll walk you through the S.T.E.A.R. framework I use with all my coaching clients. This is a step-by-step tool for understanding how your thoughts are literally creating your results, and how to interrupt the patterns keeping you stuck. If you've ever spiraled, over-analyzed, or talked yourself out of something you really wanted, this episode is for you.

What You'll Learn

• Why most of us were educated but never taught to think, and what that costs us
• The critical difference between a situation and a thought (and why mixing them up is keeping you stuck)
• How your brain builds evidence for whatever story you already believe
• The S.T.E.A.R. framework: a step-by-step coaching tool for changing your mental loops
• How the highest performers manage the space between what happens and what they make it mean

If you enjoyed today’s conversation, please follow, rate, and review Unblocked. It helps more people find these conversations and keeps this work going.

Resources:

• Jessica’s book, In Pursuit. Order my #1 New Release book In Pursuit
• Get your complimentary copy of The Unblocked Journal to help bring awareness to perfectionist thinking and what it's creating in your life.
• Join My Do The Thing Community

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Let's Get Unblocked!

This episode feels different.

If you’ve been listening this year, you know I’ve been shifting the format of Unblocked. I want these conversations to feel less like interviews and more like real life. Friends around a table. Honest wrestling. Communion over conclusions. And that’s exactly what this episode is.

I’m joined by Reverend Mary Hahn and Jamie Bell Showmaker for a conversation about faith, spirituality, Christianity, ego, worthiness, and a question that many of us grapple with:

How do we know what’s actually true?

We talk about:

• Growing up inside rigid religious frameworks
• Questioning without abandoning God
• The tension between spiritual texts and inner knowing
• What it means to be “fully human and fully divine”
• Why worthiness can feel dangerous
• Ego, humility, and the stories we inherit about ourselves
• Whether truth lives in a book or inside us

This is three women talking honestly about their journeys with God and sitting in the discomfort of not having neat answers.

If you’ve ever felt like the “truth” you were taught was incongruent with the truth within, wondered where to go for answers, or wrestled with your own worthiness, this conversation is for you.

I don’t know where this episode will land for you. But I trust that if you’re here, something in it is meant for you.

If you enjoyed today’s conversation, please follow, rate, and review Unblocked. It helps more people find these conversations and keeps this work going.

Resources:

• Jessica’s book, In Pursuit
  Order my #1 New Release book In Pursuit
• Get your complimentary copy of The Unblocked Journal to help bring awareness to perfectionist thinking and what it's creating in your life.
• Join My Do The Thing Community

Want more support?

If this episode resonated with you and you want deeper, personalized support, you can learn more about working with me at jessicasmarro.com

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• Follow me on Facebook & Instagram: @jessicasmarro
• Share this episode and tag me with what landed for you

Let's Get Unblocked!

We hear it all the time. “You just need to move on.” But what if moving on is not actually what creates healing?

In this episode, I explore the difference between moving on and moving forward, and why this distinction matters so much when you have lived through something painful, meaningful, or life-shaping.

Moving on often implies erasing, minimizing, or trying to be unaffected by what happened. Moving forward is different. It is integrative. It allows you to carry the wisdom while releasing the weight.

I share how unprocessed experiences do not disappear just because time passes, and how real healing comes from allowing an experience to have a place without letting it define your future.

You will also learn the three-step process I teach for moving forward in a grounded, practical way:

• The Extraction Process — identifying what you are taking with you
• The Release Process — letting go of what was never yours to carry
• The Integration Process — allowing the experience to inform how you live now

We also explore why forgiveness is often misunderstood, and how it naturally unfolds when integration has occurred rather than being something you force.

If you have ever wondered why something from your past still carries emotional charge, or how to move forward without bypassing what mattered, this episode will meet you there.

If you enjoyed today’s conversation, please follow, rate, and review Unblocked. It helps more people find these conversations and keeps this work going.

Resources:

• Jessica’s book, In Pursuit
  Order my #1 New Release book In Pursuit
• Get your complimentary copy of The Unblocked Journal to help bring awareness to perfectionist thinking and what it's creating in your life.
• Join My Do The Thing Community

Want more support?

If this episode resonated with you and you want deeper, personalized support, you can learn more about working with me at jessicasmarro.com

Stay connected:

• Follow me on Facebook & Instagram: @jessicasmarro
• Share this episode and tag me with what landed for you

Let's Get Unblocked!