Featured on Spiritual Media Blog: Brainspotting, Business, and Getting Unstuck
I joined Matt Welsh of Spiritual Media Blog for a conversation about Brainspotting, entrepreneurship, spirituality, and what happens when knowing what to do doesn't automatically make doing it easier.
This conversation comes from an earlier chapter of my work, when Brainspotting was much more central to how I described what I did. My work has evolved considerably since then, but the question underneath the interview is still one I work with every day: Why can a capable person understand what needs to happen next and still struggle to follow through?
What we talked about
- Why insight alone doesn't always change a recurring pattern
- How Brainspotting can be used when a deeper block is actually present
- The relationship between entrepreneurship, personal experience, and the way we respond when action gets difficult
- Why capable people can be highly effective in some areas and repeatedly stall in another
The question that stayed with me
At the time of this interview, I was looking at the gap between knowing and doing primarily through the lens of Brainspotting and internal blocks.
I still believe those blocks are real. I've also learned that treating every stalled action as an internal problem is too simplistic.
Sometimes the strategy itself isn't sound. Sometimes the next step isn't nearly as clear as it looked on paper. Sometimes the strategy is reasonable but the way you're being told to execute it doesn't fit you, your business, or the realities of your life.
And sometimes those practical pieces check out and you still repeatedly stop at the same point. That's when it makes sense to investigate whether something deeper is interrupting execution.
Where Brainspotting fits now
Brainspotting is still one of the tools I use as a certified Brainspotting practitioner. It just isn't my automatic explanation for every place someone gets stuck.
In my current work, I first want to know what kind of problem we're actually dealing with. Is the strategy sound? Is the path clear enough to execute? Does the approach fit the person who has to carry it out? What happens when they actually try?
If the practical pieces are workable and a specific pattern continues to interrupt action, then we have much better information about what may need to be addressed.
Why I'm keeping this interview available
My language and methodology have changed since this conversation, but it documents an important part of how my work developed. The knowing-doing gap was already there. What changed was my ability to distinguish between the different reasons that gap happens.
Read the original conversation
The original Spiritual Media Blog interview goes deeper into the way I understood Brainspotting, spirituality, and entrepreneurship at that point in my work.
Because it is an older interview, you'll hear some language that I no longer use to describe my business today. I'm leaving the original conversation intact rather than rewriting history to make Past Jennie sound suspiciously well-informed about everything Present Jennie eventually figured out.
What I do today
Today, I'm an Execution Block Specialist. I help coaches and service providers figure out why their strategy isn't turning into consistent action and results.
We look at the strategy, the clarity of the execution path, how well the approach fits the person and business, and what actually happens when they try to execute it. If a deeper block remains after those practical pieces are addressed, that's when block-resolution work may belong in the conversation.
You're not broken. You're blocked. The first step is figuring out where.
