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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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11:03

How Overwhelm Can Guide

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2025/12/12

We challenge the common view of emotional overwhelm as purely a sign of dysfunction or instability. Instead, we propose that intense feelings, particularly those related to mortality, grief, or loss, often serve as profound indicators of personal values and care. Allowing the body to experience this "flood" of emotion—which may manifest as crying or trembling—is not a sign of pathology but rather a functional, necessary response that provides clarity about what truly matters. By honoring

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15:52

Weekly Update 12/06

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2025/12/06

This week’s sessions echoed a deep tension: the fear that our needs might push others away. Clients shared how quickly self-doubt or shame can take over, especially when trying to navigate closeness without losing themselves.But again and again, we saw how slowing down created room for clarity. Shame softened. Breath returned. And the voice that says “you’'re too much” was met with something quieter: “you’re here.” Just that.Body awareness, internal dialogues, and visual imagery helped

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11:12

People-Pleasing Survival Strategy

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2025/12/03

We explore how compulsive generosity originates as a survival strategy learned early in life, often in dysfunctional families, where giving was transactional and required to gain safety or validation. This deeply ingrained pattern becomes a "template" in adulthood, leading the individual to attract relationships and partners with insatiable needs, resulting in sustained emotional exploitation and self-erasure rather than true connection. We identify this compulsive giving as acting like an

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12:46

Self-Obsession Is Often Regulation

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2025/12/01

We challenges the common interpretation of self-obsession, elegantly reframing intense inner commentary—often mistaken for selfishness or vanity—as an automatic protective response originating in the nervous system. This mental "hum" of worry or comparison emerges when the body registers unease or social threat, prompting the mind to fixate obsessively in an attempt to create control or find a solution to perceived danger. Crucially, this noise is identified as evidence of dysregulation,

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12:30

The Systems We Still Live By

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2025/11/27

We explore how the mind develops automatic survival systems early in life to navigate environments that feel confusing or unsafe. A core challenge arises because these deeply ingrained patterns do not update themselves, meaning they continuously shape adult thought and behavior based on past realities that no longer apply. Consequently, the mechanisms that once offered crucial protection can transform into a limitation or cage, hindering current growth, relationships, and self-trust

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12:57

Weekly Update 11/26

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2025/11/26

This week, many clients found themselves wrestling with emotional reactivity in relationships—trying to stay present even when they felt dismissed, overwhelmed, or flooded with shame. Others noticed how hard it was to stay grounded without external reassurance, especially when loneliness or uncertainty crept in.Key insights emerged about the power of staying in discomfort without forcing answers. Self-abandonment showed up as a common thread—often invisible until it became too painful to

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13:41

Economic Democracy: How to Move Beyond Capitalism

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2025/11/20

We explore economic democracy as a structural alternative to capitalism, asserting that the current system is defined by exploitation and extraction where wealth flows upward at the expense of people and the environment. The core idea is that the economy should serve life, not the other way around, by decentralizing power and giving workers, communities, and consumers direct control over economic decisions. We highlights successful examples like worker cooperatives, public banking, and

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7:31

Progress Doesn't Feel Better

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2025/11/18

We explores the nuanced reality of recovery, asserting that progress doesn't always feel better; rather, it fundamentally changes the terrain of the struggle. Healing is not a linear elimination of pain, but a shift in the safety of one's circumstances, metaphorically moving from the edge of a cliff to the edge of a sidewalk. While the emotional discomfort, or "edge," may still persist, the consequences of falling aren't the same, even if the nervous system has not yet registered this

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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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