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STUCK?

Kathryn Atkins
2 min readOct 9, 2024
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OMG. Leave it to Roy Kent’s wisdom on Ted Lasso to get me thinking about being stuck! What came out in my journal this morning after the “stuck” episode was this:

How Do I Get Unstuck?

Can I distance myself from my Self?

Can I stop being those icky things I dislike?

Can I do more of the things I DO like about myself?

OMG… Can I dare bare

And be aware of the

Wear and tear …

On in my psyche, “down there?”

Sitting in a chair

Under the stair

Wearing dread-locked hair

With the bear in its lair.

Indeed, it’s a scare.

A nightmare.

I care.

I swear.

That I can get unstuck, too, Roy.

Thanks! :-)

Here’s the reference — with no spoilers, by the way.

It’s from “International Break,” Season Three, Episode 10, where Roy wears a bright Red, Orange, and Yellow tie-dyed T-shirt (R, O, and Y is for ROY!), which is a birthday present from his niece, Phoebe. The aha is that while wearing the shirt, he realizes he is stuck and takes action to get unstuck. Awesome stuff!

Thanks, Roy Kent and the writers at Ted Lasso.

P.S. Other characters get unstuck in this episode, too, but okay — no spoilers.

#RoyKent #TedLasso #Stuck #Unstuck

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Kathryn Atkins
Kathryn Atkins

Written by Kathryn Atkins

Author, poet, business writer, pianist, flamenco dancer, altMBA grad, Berkeley MBA. I like yoga, reading, traveling, family, friends, and dogs.

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