Stop Chasing Tools | Between the Pause with Pam Dwyer

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

Delay the Binge™ explores the patterns behind urges, habits, stress patterns, burnout, and Quiet Depletion™ — and what happens in the pause between impulse and action, where real behavior change begins.

Through conversations with leading experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, and human behavior, you’ll gain practical insight into how the brain shapes reactions — and how small, intentional shifts create lasting behavior change.

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