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Why You Feel Stuck

(Even When Your Life Looks Perfect)

You might be feeling stuck in a rut, and you don’t even know what that is. 


I have noticed that with many of my clients or even people that I talk to. 



When you don’t know that you stuck in the rut, you feel all the emotions, and keep thinking that there’s something wrong with you, since there’s not a clear reason as to why you re feeling this way. 


One of the red flags I like sharing with my clients to start the process of awareness for your own RUT is to notice how you feel, or even if you are flooded with negative thoughts coming at you when you feel the way you feel.

The self blaming, guilt, shame… the way you feel like you should be ashamed, you should feel guilty for not feeling happier and more fulfilled.

Can you see how harsh this cycle is? Feeling guilty for wanting to be happier, and feeling ashamed for not feeling as happy as you think you should be. Ouch, that hurts just writing this. 



And it also hurts thinking that there’s something wrong with you, because there’s no way this is just normal. 

If you keep contemplating the question “What’s wrong with me?” it’s time to start paying more attention to this talk about the rut… 



Why is this so important?


You DESERVE so much more than what you are allowing in your life. And I want to emphasize the word ALLOWING. You get to allow what you want to have in your life. And a lot of times, we literally do not allow happiness, fulfillment, contentment, or even life satisfaction.


In many ways, we don’t think we deserve to have those things. And that’s a problem. We settle in living a smaller life, even though we know, deep down, we have such greater potential compared to the life we have now. 


When you feel stuck, it’s so much harder to ALLOW the feelings of happiness to come to you. 





What does it mean that you are stuck?


You might be asking what it feels to be stuck in the first place… what does it mean to be stuck in life? 


Here are two ways I’d invite you to think through this.

Are you FEELING stuck, and

Are you BEING stuck?



Let’s talk about the 1st one. What's it like to  FEEL stuck?


Have you ever felt like you opened your eyes, and life moved on, husband has a great job, kids are growing, kids are developing, and still, it feels like nothing has changed with you. You are just responding to everything going on around you, but you are not really changing, growing, and evolving. You are just paralyzed while everything is moving along. 


I remember when I noticed this for the first time, and it is not like I wasn’t doing a lot of things. I had started a business, I had 3 children after years of infertility, but it felt like everything was the same. It was so hard to explain, because everyone that saw my life could see how much everything changed so quickly, but deep down I was stuck in what felt like held down by an identity that didn’t belong to me. 


I mean, how can you even explain that to someone?


My emotional baseline was basically the same everyday. I felt bored, I felt the lack of excitement, lack of fulfillment… but when anyone (me included) looked at my life on paper, it was pretty amazing. Everything I had accomplished would make anyone super excited, but me… not really… 


My best guess is that something was wrong with me. And to be fair, whenever I heard the “There’s nothing wrong with you,” my skin crawled a little bit… It felt dismissive and misunderstood. 


How could anyone understand it? I couldn’t understand it myself… My life was literately picture-perfect, everyone who say it noticed how much it was accomplished, and yet



The thing is that society gives us a list of “boxes” to check by the time we are at this age. We don’t even consider if it is necessary or not.

Podcast Full Episode

Here’s what you will learn in this episode:

  • The difference between feeling stuck and being stuck, and why that distinction matters.

  • Why women with picture-perfect lives often feel unfulfilled, disconnected, or guilty for wanting more.

  • How repeated patterns (like weight loss struggles or setting the same goals) reveal deeper emotional stuckness.

  • The answer to the important question, “What is wrong with me?” and how self-understanding becomes the foundation for self-love.

  • A preview of the Art & Science of the Future Self and how it helps you reconnect with your true desires and inner potential.


  • Transcript

    The Future Self Mindset Program, how that really works for you and your life, and it's just a space that I am using to really share with you why you're stuck.


    And a lot of times, I have noticed with, new clients, or when I first talk to someone who hasn't had any coaching before, doesn't really know what is, you know, what is coaching? What can coaching do for you? And…

    when I'm talking to them.


    a lot of times, I notice that they have been stuck in a rut, and they don't even know what that is. So, that is kind of the… one of the purposes, right? We will talk more about this in this masterclass, but one of the purposes that I have is to share with you…


    you are stuck, or what does that look like, what does that feel like, and why that happens? Because a lot of times, you know that you feel stuck, or you know that you are stuck, because of all of the negative thinking that comes at you when you feel the way you feel.


    And so it's a lot of that negative self-talk, that blaming, that guilt, the shame, and you don't even know, you think that that is actually what it is, you think that you should be ashamed, you should feel guilty, and the truth is, is that…


    you're stuck, and it's not your fault, right? So this, in this master class next week.


    In this masterclass on the 19th, I will share with you a lot of details of why you're stuck, and how and why this is not your fault. And I will answer one specific question that I know many women are asking themselves, and the question is.


    What the heck is wrong with me? And I will answer you that question there, okay? So I hope I get to see you on Wednesday, November 19th, at noon Eastern time, and we will talk all about this, because guess what? You deserve so much more than what you are allowing in your life.


    You deserve so much more than what you are allowing in your life. And the word allowing is the key word right here. You get to allow what you want to have in your life. And a lot of times, we literally do not allow happiness, fulfillment, contentment.

    life satisfaction.


    to come to us, because in many ways, we don't even think we deserve to have those things. Anyways, we will talk a lot more in that class about this, but for today, here's what I want to share with you.

    Oh, then just… let me stop recording, because it is going to be part of the workshop, I think.


    Hey gents, so my sweet dog just ate.

    My AirPods.


    Anyways, you might need to edit a little bit here, because I don't know…

    how you would transition to that. But, okay, so here goes.


    I can remember what I said before.

    Okay, I hope you can come to this workshop, and I will have all of the information in the show notes, and you'll also receive some emails. If you're on my email list, you will receive some emails reminding you to sign up for this workshop. It would be really good. I promise you're gonna like it.


    And for today, I wanted to just share with you a little bit from that class, from the work… the master class that I have,

    that I have prepared for you, and

    two things that I wanted to… for you to even think through before you watch the whole class, okay?


    So this is kind of… this is some of the slides from the class, to be totally honest.


    But also, I just want to share with you the… what it feels like. I talk a lot about feeling stuck, or being stuck.


    And… but what does that even mean, right? How do you know that you're stuck? That is a question that I ask a lot of my clients when they are expressing to me what it's like, like, oh, I just feel stuck.


    what does that mean to you? What does it feel like? So what I have noticed…

    They're two different things, they're kind of…


    Kind of the same, but different. One is you feeling stuck, and one is you being stuck.


    And what does it mean when you feel stuck?


    And I still remember on my early days, especially when, you know, little kids came along, and it was just trying to keep up with everything that I had, and it felt like every day was the same. I knew that things were changing, I knew that

    you know, the life was changing. Husband got a promotion, and the baby walked, and then the twins did something… something was always happening.


    But I felt like I was the same for many years ago. Nothing really changed. Even though I had gotten married, I had kids, I had a job, I had so many things, I was starting a new business, and so many things were different, but the way I felt was the same.


    every day, it kind of… my baseline, emotional baseline was basically the same, right? I felt bored a lot, I felt the lack of excitement, the lack of fulfillment, right? It's… but then when you look at your life on paper, it's pretty amazing. Everything you have accomplished.

    it looks perfect. I literally call it picture perfect, because it really is. You have checked all of the boxes that society has told you that you're supposed to. By this time, right? I'm 40. I mean, when you're 40 years old, there's this list of things that society has really…


    you know, hammered down in your mind that you had to have by now, and I have it. I have it all. That's literally how it feels, right? I have it all. So, why the heck I feel so bad, or I feel so unfulfilled? Because on paper, my friend, it looks like I should be a lot happier.


    Right? That is one of the ways that we know that we are stuck in something. Or even when you are… how many times have you set the same goal.


    In the back of your mind, you almost know that you are not going to achieve it, right? Losing weight. How many times when I… it's almost December, right? December 31st, that's what we do as women. We set goals to lose all that weight by the summer, so we can wear a bikini, or whatever it is they want to…

    you know, fill up the blanks. But yes, how many times have you set up goals to lose weight?


    And then you might lose 10 pounds, you might gain 10 pounds, and then you gain 20, and then you feel horrible about yourself, and then you set another goal to lose more weight. This yo-yo, this back and forth with yourself, is a sign of stuckness. You have lived the same life


    So many times, right, you… when you're 15 years old, you're trying to lose weight, and then when you're 21, you are again back on that, and then at 25, back on this, and then you're 60, and you're still trying to lose weight. I was like that…


    it's not possible that your body's just incapable of losing weight, or that you are incapable of losing weight. And then the…

    look at… we're talking about how stuck feels like, right? Because then you're going to look at it, and you say, well, the only thing that's here, that it's the constant thing that's here, it's me.

    Therefore, there must be something wrong with me, right? Because if…


    I can't lose weight when I'm 15, I can't lose weight when I'm 20, I can't lose weight when I'm 60. The only

    commonality that we have here, it's me. So, therefore, I am not capable, I am not good enough, I am incompetent, I can't do this. And, well, come on, we know that that's not true. We know that you're competent enough, so why aren't you doing it?


    Why are you stuck in that rut? And that is what, in this master class this week, we're gonna really go deep on what that is.

    Because, believe it or not, there is a very specific answer for this question.


    There's a very specific answer to this question, and I wanted to share with you.

    And then, you also… has that,

    And then also, there's this sense of…

    Even though I have accomplished so much.

    I still feel like there's so much more that I could do, right? Have you felt that way?

    you feel like, I have degrees, I have…

    wonderful jobs, I have this great family, I have… even, like, a clean house, I have a clean house! And then you feel like, oh, but there's so much more within that I'm unable to tap into. I just know that I have more

    in me that I am not tapping just yet. So that, you know, the untapped potential, it's how we call it.


    And for me, it showed up even before I had kids. I had moved to the U.S, I had… that's, what, almost 20 years ago.


    And I still remember where I was when I called a friend back in Brazil, and, you know, I was married, I didn't have kids yet, but we were talking about having children, and I remember what she said, and she said that.


    Well, the most important thing a woman can do is to be a mother.


    And I just stopped and thought, and I mean, I was 20-something, and I just stopped and was like.

    I don't think so.

    And she's like, oh, you don't think being a mother is the most important thing?

    Sure!

    I… it might?


    I don't know. And it's like, what happens then if you can't be a mother? What happens if I couldn't have children? Then what? Unless I adopt, I…

    can achieve my whole potential? And that question, I still, again, I still remember where I was, because that was one of the first times that I was awakened to this concept of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable for you to feel, for you to be, for you to have.

    And then we are following those rules that they put on us, right? Somebody else, that it's not us.


    And we start to feel like I can't live up to that expectations. Or even worse, and I really believe it's even worse than I'm not living up to the societal expectations, is where, when…


    You already did everything, and there's no more boxes to check, because if you have been checking those boxes.


    That society has sent you, of what you have to do, how you have to feel, what happens when you check everything and there's nothing else. There's nothing else that they tell you you have to do, you have to be, you have to feel.


    for you, right, so that you can feel happy, you can feel fulfilled. And that's when you're just like, wow, it feels like I have so much more within?


    And I just don't know how to transfer it to this 3D world. You're just stuck.


    That is the feeling I'm talking about. That's what it feels like to be in this position, and you're not too sure how to get out, because there's not many people out there giving you answers. And I will tell you why. I tell you why. People can't give you the answers.

    Or if they tell you they have the answer.

    It's… and you'll see that on the workshop. You'll see that, it's like, oh, I'm not sure if you really do have the answer.


    They're still giving you another box to be in, okay? It might not be society, but now it's that guru that I've been following, and she tells me she has the answers for all of my problems.


    And again, we are conditioned to believe that somebody else would have your answer. And what I'm here to tell you is that that is BS.


    If there's anyone, and if I say that, I mean, I'm not immune for using those marketing, you know, concepts that I have learned a while back, and maybe it will slip in my mind, and I will say something like, oh.

    I know what you have to do. It's like, I do not know what you have to do. I don't. You know what I do know how?


    Oh, I… what I do know, I do know that you have the answers, and I know, because of my experience, because of my expertise, because of all of the trainings that I have done, with all of the

    hundreds of coaching, hours that I have under my belt, I know how to help you, help you get the answers, or achieve the answers for yourself.


    For what is the next box, like, quote-unquote, box that you wanted to create for your life? Because that is the difference. Right there, that is the difference. You need to be in a place where you feel empowered to find your own answers.


    And that's what we would do.

    I'm sorry, that is not what I will… and that's what I will show you in this masterclass on Wednesday the 19th.


    a little bit of what does that mean, what all of those things that I'm telling you mean, and how can you find your own answer?

    Now, I do…

    Now, let's talk a little bit about how, like, what it means to be stuck. So, we're talking about feeling, right? Like, that feeling of stuckness, the feeling of, I have more in myself, and I can't really tap into it.


    And what it be like. The first thing, it's when you understand, right, when you get those feelings, and you're like, oh.


    I think that's it. I think I have been stuck in this specific thing, or sometimes in every area of your life, right? Maybe as you're stuck in weight loss, maybe you're stuck in not being able to exercise, maybe you're stuck in a relationship that you don't feel fulfilled.

    When you notice those things, then you can say, but what does that even mean, to be stuck?

    And let me tell you first what it does not mean. It doesn't mean that you are lazy, it doesn't mean that you lack motivation, it doesn't mean that you are a failure.


    And a lot of times, it feels like that's what it is, right? It feels like, why can't I just work out more often? I must be lazy, okay? That's not it at all. And the thing is then, we will find

    coaching programs, or you'll find a therapist, or you'll find courses online, or you'll ask ChatPT, how can I stop being so lazy and start working out? And again, they will send you a list of things for you to do.

    But the truth is, We shouldn't even be talking about laziness in the first place.

    Right? The root cause is the stuckness. And unless you understand what the stuckness means, it's really hard for you to get out.


    So, finding new things for motivation, maybe it's a new… every time I see someone looking for a time management course, or my skills, I'm like, red flag, red flag, then I'm… bye.

    That might not be what you need.

    So just pay attention to that one.

    And then, again, and I talked a little bit in the feeling side of it, but being stuck, it's literally…

    when you notice what society, or when I say society, it could be your mom, it could be, right, like, parents, family, churches, school, what they have said that you needed to do, and then you have done all of those things, and you're just like, now what?

    is that all there is to life? So I finished my third PhD, now what? What do I do next?


    Okay? That feeling right there of not knowing what you need to do to be happy, or what else it's missing for you, maybe I… I… oh, I know I keep on bringing myself to this, but that is the, you know,

    That's the example that comes easily to my mind, so that I'm not using clients, I have examples so much.


    client's example so much, but oh man, I remember looking out my window, I always tell this story, I remember looking out my window, and just thinking, it's like…

    Should I buy a new car?


    Or should I get a dog? It's like, what is this chasing for happiness? It must have been a new car, or maybe it's a puppy, right? And then I was like, oh, no, but…


    I don't have any brand name bags, maybe that's what I needed to do. You see, like, looking for something, chasing something to find that… that…

    fulfillment, the contentment of life. That's not how you get it, okay? And, again, this is just a little… those are two slides from my workshop that,

    from the masterclass I wanted to share with you today, we will go so much deeper on all of those things and much more. And I cannot wait to see you, I hope you come!

    Sign up on the link below, or go to my social media at Thais Glenn Coaching, and you'll find all the information that you need. 


    Okay, my friends, I love you so much, I cannot wait to see you. I will see you then. 


    Bye-bye.


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