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Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the same hill, forever. Icarus falling from the sky, and the father left behind who must decide whether to build with wax and feather again. Penelope at her loom, unweaving each night what she wove by day, while everyone around her mistakes her stillness for surrender. The old myths are usually told with the hardest moment left standing as the ending - but read a little further, and each one already contains its own way through.
Unstuck: A Mythology of Moving Forward retells twelve of these stories, each built around a different shape that "stuck" can take: overwhelm at a task too large to hold in mind at once, fear of trying again after a public failure, a burden carried so long it has fused with identity, the need for certainty that undoes progress right before it finishes, catastrophic thinking, rumination, grief without a clear end, and more. These stories don't offer advice, exactly. They offer company - proof that this particular shape of stuck has been felt before, by someone else, long enough ago that an entire story grew up around it.
Written by Dr Steve Halls, a Behavioural Neurotherapist with more than thirty years of clinical practice, Unstuck also looks at where modern psychotherapy tends to misunderstand stuckness: why most treatment assumes a client already in motion, why real change rarely follows a straight line, why insight alone gets mistaken for the whole of the work, and what actually seems to help.
Whether you're in the middle of your own hill, labyrinth, or ash heap, or supporting someone else through theirs, these twelve stories are twelve doors into the same process: not leaping clear of the struggle, but changing your relationship to it, one step, one push, one turn of the thread at a time.
Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the same hill, forever. Icarus falling from the sky, and the father left behind who must decide whether to build with wax and feather again. Penelope at her loom, unweaving each night what she wove by day, while everyone around her mistakes her stillness for surrender. The old myths are usually told with the hardest moment left standing as the ending - but read a little further, and each one already contains its own way through.
Unstuck: A Mythology of Moving Forward retells twelve of these stories, each built around a different shape that "stuck" can take: overwhelm at a task too large to hold in mind at once, fear of trying again after a public failure, a burden carried so long it has fused with identity, the need for certainty that undoes progress right before it finishes, catastrophic thinking, rumination, grief without a clear end, and more. These stories don't offer advice, exactly. They offer company - proof that this particular shape of stuck has been felt before, by someone else, long enough ago that an entire story grew up around it.
Written by Dr Steve Halls, a Behavioural Neurotherapist with more than thirty years of clinical practice, Unstuck also looks at where modern psychotherapy tends to misunderstand stuckness: why most treatment assumes a client already in motion, why real change rarely follows a straight line, why insight alone gets mistaken for the whole of the work, and what actually seems to help.
Whether you're in the middle of your own hill, labyrinth, or ash heap, or supporting someone else through theirs, these twelve stories are twelve doors into the same process: not leaping clear of the struggle, but changing your relationship to it, one step, one push, one turn of the thread at a time.