The Hidden Cost of Being Self-Aware

Engaging, thought provoking lectures by experts, professors and storytellers in Ottawa bars 📚Lecture: "The Hidden Cost of Being Self-Aware" ⏱️Time: Doors: 6pm Lecture: 7pm 🎤Speaker: Brooke Marie Bridges (Mental Health Speaker and the founder of Unearthing Wellness) We live in a culture that celebrates self-awareness. We take personality tests, analyze our attachment styles, track our habits, identify our triggers, and spend countless hours trying tounderstand ourselves. But what if more self-reflection doesn't always lead to greater wellbeing? Drawing from research on self-awareness, rumination, and behavior change, this lecture explores a provocative question: can we become so focused on understanding ourselves that we lose sight of actually living? Using personal storytelling, including her own experience growing up as a child actress, alongside research from organizational psychology and clinical studies on rumination, Brooke walks the audience through the gap between insight and actual change, and offers a concrete, testable tool the audience can use that same night. Brooke Marie Bridges is a mental health speaker and educator with over 10 years of experience, a somatic CBT coach, herbalist, and the founder of Unearthing Wellness, where she explores the intersection of psychology, embodiment, and our relationship with the natural world. A former child actress, she draws on her own experience of learning to perform emotion before learning to feel it as the foundation for her work today. 🍻Get a drink, connect and learn at Tipsy Scholars Agenda 6:00pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in. 6:55pm - Host Introduction 7:00pm - Lecture starts 7:45pm - Q&A with Audience 8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks