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14102 Steve Harper Interviews Sherri Ann Alexandrovich Owner of New Beginnings Wellness Center

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Steve Harper starts with a music memory and uses Bowie’s "Changes" to ask why people resist transformation. Sherry Ann Alexandrovich answers in clear, steady language. She explains that the known can feel safer than the unknown, even when staying the same gets in the way of growth and transition. The conversation stays close to how people actually feel change, not just how they talk about it. It is more about the tug of leaving familiar ground than about theory. Harper keeps returning to the emotional side of choice. Alexandrovich names the mix of comfort and discomfort that comes with a real shift. She points out that more than one feeling can be true at once. Pride and loss can sit together. Happiness and sadness can sit together too. She uses a parent sending a child to college as a simple example. The child’s independence can bring pride, while it also creates a sense of loss at home. That tension becomes one of the episode’s main ideas. The discussion also touches on language and how certain words shape the way change gets processed. Alexandrovich stresses that an intentional choice feels different from an unexpected one. When a decision is under your control, it can be handled more deliberately. She suggests breaking a hard choice into two paths, then listing the pros and cons of each path. That makes the decision visible instead of leaving it trapped in the mind. Harper picks up on the way people can loop inside their own thoughts. Alexandrovich calls that looping perseveration. Her answer is to slow things down and put them on paper. The result is a conversation that feels gentle but useful. It keeps coming back to the same point: change is not just something to survive. It is something to name carefully, weigh honestly, and move through with more self-awareness.

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A thoughtful look at why change feels risky, and how to make it more manageable.

Change is the real subject here, but the discussion keeps it practical rather than rhetorical. Sherry Ann Alexandrovich gives a steady way of thinking through why people hold on to what they know, how even welcome transitions can still carry loss, and why it helps to name both…

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Need a calm, practical way to think through change without spiraling?

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