We explore why tools like diets, planners, and systems often fail to create lasting change and how awareness of patterns leads to sustainable shifts. We show how a pause brings the thinking brain back online and turns “failure” into useful data.

• tools manage behavior while patterns drive urges
• the behavior is the brain’s solution, not the root problem
• pause and curiosity create awareness that disrupts loops
• shame blocks learning while data guides change
• insights from neuroscience and psychology align on patterns
• use small micro-interrupts to restore choice
• reframe “failure” as information to adjust support
• align tools with needs of the nervous system

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We explore addiction to substances and people, how trauma bonds masquerade as love, and why joyful sobriety demands daily integration. Joe Weatherford shares practical tools like one more second, journaling, and compassionate curiosity to pause urges and build peace after chaos.

• addiction as state change and pattern, not just substance
• trauma histories shaping attachment, conflict, and compulsion
• love versus trauma bonds measured by repair and nervous system cues
• spiritual bypassing replaced with feeling, naming, and truth
• pause practices, one more second, and 90‑second urge windows
• women’s quiet depletion and the cost of overgiving
• body symptoms as signals for alignment, not enemies
• micro‑actions for integration, intention writing, movement, nutrition
• expanding capacity for joy and disrupting self‑sabotage
• self‑responsibility with compassion as a path to peace

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Storytelling that transforms. Healing that lasts.
From bestselling author Pam Dwyer (PJ Hamilton).
Books + speaking: PamDwyer.com

We reframe leadership as sustainable performance grounded in well-being, presence, and the courage to pause. Sarah Draper shares how resilience, mindfulness, and her future walk practice help leaders reduce drift, regain focus, and lead from the inside out.

• redefining leadership as presence and sustainability
• quiet depletion behind high performance
• drift, residue and the cost of numbing
• mindfulness as a focus and regulation skill
• the power of pausing between stimulus and response
• movement for cognition, creativity and clarity
• future walk practice at daily, strategic and vision levels
• devotion over discipline and kindness as leverage
• leading human in an AI-flooded world
• two repeatable tools for resilient leadership

Explore Sarah's work at Leading Well Strategies and learn more about her Future Walk practice
You don't have to fix everything today. Sometimes the most powerful leadership move is simply to pause and choose the next right thing.

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This is Delay the Binge™, formerly The Plus One Theory Podcast

Delay the Binge™ is a trademark of TPKK Concepts LLC.
© 2025 Pam Dwyer. All rights reserved.
Learn more: DelayTheBinge.com

Storytelling that transforms. Healing that lasts.
From bestselling author Pam Dwyer (PJ Hamilton).
Books + speaking: PamDwyer.com