Square Peg Round Hole
Ever feel like you don't fit? Like you can't be real? In other words, you have to fake it because you're not accepted as your true self. Yeah, that seems about right. And ridiculous.
Every day people from every background—not just you—put on masks to make it through life. Talk about exhausting. But we keep doing it because no one wants to talk about the insanity of it even though it keeps us from being our best.
Well, that's about to change.
Welcome to Square Peg Round Hole with Timothy Eldred, writer, speaker, and friendly disrupter of the status quo on a mission to end aloneness and help people live and lead with authenticity in an artificial world.
Square Peg Round Hole
Ep.26 | You've Been Working on the Wrong System
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After an extended absence, Tim is back—and he's not coming back empty-handed.
A brain aneurysm. A rare nerve condition. A body that stopped cooperating. And 35 years of knowing how to help people change—none of it working when he was the one who needed to change.
That's where this starts.
In this episode, Tim tells the full story he's never told: what broke down, what he found in the science, and what he spent two years building in response. The core insight changed everything he thought he knew about transformation — and it might change how you think about why you're stuck.
If you've been doing everything right and something still feels off, this one's for you.
In this episode:
- Why Tim disappeared—and why it matters
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia, a brain aneurysm, and the moment his frameworks failed him in real time
- The science: polyvagal theory, somatic research, and why the body decides what's possible before the mind gets involved
- Why you cannot build sustainable change on a dysregulated nervous system
- The S.H.I.F.T. framework—what it is and where it came from
Mentioned: The Shift by Timothy Eldred—pre-order now, releases March 15 → theshiftplan.com
Dr. Stephen Porges—Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk—The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett—How Emotions Are Made.
timothyeldred.com | theshiftplan.com
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