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ISSUE

Jan-Willem Dikkers

ISSUE explores awareness, emotion, and integrity — how we stay connected to what’s real in a culture built on distraction. The episodes grow from themes that surface in therapy, dialogue, and reading, through the use of emerging creative technologies.

society & culture self-improvement

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12:54

What Endless Overwhelm Signals

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2025/10/29

We explore how the sensation of an emotion lasting "forever" serves as a critical signal of an emotional flashback, indicating that the nervous system is recalling a past trauma rather than simply responding to the current moment. This experience occurs because a flashback collapses the sense of time, fusing the present with an older emotional imprint, which causes reactions to feel intensely amplified. Because the overwhelming feeling originates from the perspective of a child who lacked

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12:56

Weekly Update 10/27

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2025/10/27

This week, many sessions circled around emotional overwhelm, disconnection, and the tension between action and pause. Clients named how exhausting it can be to care deeply or show up consistently when outcomes remain uncertain or when their effort goes unseen. Beneath frustration, there was often grief—and a quiet search for clarity, safety, or simply room to breathe.Several clients found that slowing down helped more than speeding up. Taking time, stepping back, or naming what was

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9:52

Working as “We” Builds integrity

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2025/10/27

We explore a structural approach to building consistent integrity by transforming the relationship with the inner critic, which is an internal protector operating on outdated data. This harsh guardian, which believes constant surveillance and self-attack equal survival, prevents authentic choice and creates paralysis rather than safety. Transformation involves shifting from internal conflict to partnership by using the word "we" to invite the protector to collaborate with the adult self,

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13:12

Outgrowing People You Love

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2025/10/25

We explore the inherent challenge of authentic self-actualization within existing relationships, emphasizing that personal growth often comes at a significant cost. The core conflict arises because becoming one’s true self destabilizes identity and triggers a biological fear of abandonment, compelling the individual to shrink themselves to maintain connections built on past versions of who they were. Although sacrificing truth for connection ultimately destroys true intimacy, outgrowing

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11:33

What Works Stops Working

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2025/10/22

We expore how patterns that once served a protective or intelligent function inevitably evolve into constraints as life progresses. This process highlights that previous strategies, which were essential solutions to real problems, have a temporary lifespan and become limiting when the context changes. True growth is not about finding a permanent solution or "right pattern," but rather involves the continuous process of recognizing when yesterday's solution becomes today's limitation and

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12:07

Weekly Update 10/20

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2025/10/21

Across this week’s sessions, emotional burnout, relational confusion, and identity tied to achievement stood out as key struggles. Many clients named the toll of over-functioning or romantic uncertainty, especially when self-worth was shaped by performance or connection.A core theme was recognizing that self-value doesn’t come from output. Clients explored how grief and longing can exist without being a call to return, and how the body itself reveals emotional truth through fatigue,

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15:00

The Doing Trap

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2025/10/18

We explore the concept of the "Doing Trap," and how modern achievement culture is fundamentally a system of emotional suppression disguised as ambition. The central thesis is that relentless productivity and the "performance mandate" function as an avoidance strategy, allowing individuals to bury painful feelings like shame, confusion, and inadequacy beneath constant motion. This cycle creates an "architecture of numbness" where fulfillment is always postponed to the next milestone, leading

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11:38

Trusting the Shift

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2025/10/17

We explore the profound commitment to personal alignment, and how choosing internal integrity over external comfort is the only path that will not betray you. Pursuing alignment may involve short-term disruptions, such as letting go of misfitting jobs, relationships, and identities, these sacrifices ultimately make space for a reality closer to one's true self. Staying misaligned costs more in the long run by draining energy and distorting one's truth, contrasting this with the ultimate

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10:36

Stop Living in What If

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2025/10/15

We explore how "what ifs" are a hidden trap that leads to inaction by creating the illusion of smart planning. These imagined futures frequently mask as reality, causing them to outweigh genuine circumstances and logically favoring staying comfortable instead of moving forward. We discuss how hypotheticals are not true obstacles but a mechanism for protecting comfort and familiar patterns, even when nothing concrete blocks progress. To overcome this paralyzing thinking, one must focus on

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16:14

Weekly Update 10/13

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2025/10/13

This week, many sessions revealed the cost of over-functioning—taking on too much in order to feel valuable, needed, or emotionally safe. Without clear limits, this role leads to depletion, emotional confusion, and disconnection from self.Several clients explored what it means to let go. When control was softened, they found steadiness—not collapse. For some, the fear wasn’t of failure, but of what might surface in stillness. Slowing down allowed them to meet emotions more honestly.Tools

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8:58

When Good Enough Becomes Possible

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2025/10/12

We explore how to redefines the concept of "Good Enough" as a powerful state of alignment and inner stability, rather than a concession or failure. The core message suggests that ease is a sign of alignment where work happens without strain because internal resistance has ceased. By trusting that not everything needs to be held simultaneously, individuals can allow space for unfinished tasks and loose ends, shifting completion away from a state of crisis. Ultimately, embracing "good enough"

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8:35

When It Works, Repeat It

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2025/10/09

We explore the idea that real, lasting change solidifies through repetition under identical conditions—not through chasing improvement or relying on bursts of motivation. When a fragile positive behavior occurs, the mind often seeks to escalate or optimize it, which is actually a form of resistance in disguise that prevents the change from sticking. Stability and resilience come from limiting variables and repeating the exact action until the nervous system registers the pattern as familiar

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13:14

The Psychology of Certainty: How Fear, Identity, and...

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2025/10/07

The Psychology of Certainty explores how seemingly rigid beliefs are often defensive responses to unprocessed fear, shame, and grief. The central argument is that when people feel overwhelmed or their core identity is threatened, they retreat into simplified worldviews to maintain a sense of order and emotional safety, often leading to an intolerance for nuance or contradiction. The text examines how this phenomenon, which is amplified in polarized times, transforms emotional protection

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15:01

Navigating a World in Crisis: A Spiritual Perspective...

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2025/10/07

"Navigating a World in Crisis: A Spiritual Perspective on Chaos, Power, and Hope," serves as a grounding reflection for individuals overwhelmed by systemic instability and societal decline. It posits that the current global turmoil is rooted in a deep imbalance and the illusion that power is found in material control and dominance, rather than in principles of truth and compassion. The essay encourages a shift from fear and reactivity to inner stability and awareness, arguing that while

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16:12

Weekly Update

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2025/10/05

Weekly Update Series, highlighting top struggles, lessons, breakthroughs, and more. This therapeutic overview outlines common psychological challenges, the lessons that emerge from them, and the strategies used to foster healing. The text details prevalent struggles such as overwork, perfectionism, and emotional numbing, contrasting them with key lessons focusing on awareness, presence, and honesty as foundational elements for sustainable change. Practical tools like body anchoring and

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10:18

Paradox is Rhythm, Not Confusion

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2025/10/05

"Paradox is Rhythm, Not Confusion," argues that paradoxical conflicts—such as those encountered on a spiritual path—should not be approached as problems requiring logical resolution. Instead, the text proposes that when the mind becomes overwhelmed by "catch-22s" like "surrender or control," the appropriate response is to treat the contradiction as a rhythm to be physically embraced rather than intellectually solved. Through a dialogue between a client and a therapist, the source suggests

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21:42

Seen and Unsafe: How Visibility Triggers the Wounds...

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2025/10/05

"Seen and Unsafe: How Visibility Triggers the Wounds We Haven’t Healed" explores the complex, often negative reactions people have to others' bold self-expression as a reflection of their own unresolved trauma. Discomfort with overt displays—whether sexual or creative—frequently stems not from objective judgment, but from a flashback to the cost of being seen when visibility previously meant exposure or violation without adequate support. This trauma causes individuals to perform restrained

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11:19

Rethinking SSRIs: A Critical Look at Long-Term Use,...

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2025/09/17

"Rethinking SSRIs: A Critical Look at Long-Term Use, Efficacy, and Impact" challenges the widespread practice of prescribing Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) for long periods, highlighting that there is limited long-term research supporting their extended efficacy. We scrutinize the persistent "chemical imbalance theory" as a "damaging myth" that often obscures the deeper roles of trauma and relational dynamics in mental distress. Furthermore, we highlight significant, yet

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13:57

Why Blaming Parents Is Sometimes the First Step...

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2025/08/29

We explore how the path to emotional healing often necessitates the act of acknowledging and placing blame for childhood wounds onto parents, rather than beginning with immediate forgiveness. The central argument is that difficulties faced by adults, such as low self-worth or anxiety, stem from adaptations made in childhood, leading to the heartbreaking but common conclusion, "something must be wrong with me," which serves as a survival strategy to maintain attachment to caregivers. These

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12:39

What Keeps Emotional Pain Alive: Avoidance and...

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2025/08/03

Emotional pain persists primarily due to two common, yet counterproductive, strategies: avoidance and meaning-making. We explore how buried pain, originating from overwhelming past experiences, resurfaces as distressing sensations, and how our natural impulse is to avoid these feelings through various behaviors, such as overthinking, addiction, or constant busyness—strategies that ultimately keep the emotional energy stuck and unreleased. Furthermore, the mind often rushes to assign meaning

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