Stuck Is a Trance: You're Not Broken. You're Rehearsed.

You're not broken. You're rehearsed. If you keep doing the thing you swore you'd stop — saying yes when you mean no, reaching for the same comfort, bracing for a conversation that hasn't even happened — you've probably asked yourself what's wrong with you. Nothing is. What feels like a flaw is a pattern: a trance you've practised so many times it now runs on its own. Drawing on hypnotherapy, three decades of coaching and martial arts, and the quiet principles of breath, structure, relaxation and movement, Aaron Ellis shows how these everyday trances actually work — the approval trance, the craving trance, the failure-rehearsal trance, the waiting trance — and, more importantly, how to interrupt them. This isn't about willpower, shame, or becoming someone new. It's about recognising the pattern, catching it a little earlier each time, and rehearsing a different response until the new way becomes the natural one. Practical, warm, and free of jargon, Stuck Is a Trance offers a gentler, more honest path to change — one small, repeatable step at a time. You don't have to force it. You just have to practise.