You've done well. The career works, the life looks good from the outside, and you feel you should be happy. But something is missing, and you can't put your finger on it. Maybe it's a quiet dream you've never acted on, or a sense that life is slipping by. Drawing on his own years in a secure corporate job, Russell looks at how people get from "fine" to fulfilled.

• A life that's comfortable enough is often harder to leave than one that's painful. What are you tolerating?
• Being brutally honest with yourself about the dreams you've done nothing about is where change starts.
• Fear of success can be stronger than fear of failure. Russell draws on Steven Pressfield's The War of Art.
• Commitment means "holding the pose": staying with the discomfort of change rather than going back to what's familiar.
• Why Russell has worked with a coach for nearly 20 years, and what he means by "a champion for your soul".

The reframe: the itch that says something is missing isn't ingratitude. It's worth listening to.

If you're successful but unfulfilled and quietly wondering, "Is this it?", this one's for you.

When everything feels too much, with too many decisions, too many people needing something and a mind that won't settle, the usual advice is to relax, breathe properly or clear your head. This guided meditation asks nothing of you. You don't need to stop thinking or make yourself calm. For a few minutes, you simply let everything be as it is, and notice what happens when you stop trying to fix it.

• Why overwhelm is often your mind pulling yesterday, tomorrow and every unfinished task into this one moment.
• The glitter ball: why a busy mind settles when you leave it alone, not when you manage each thought.
• If your feelings about a situation can change while the situation stays the same, they weren't telling you as much as they seemed to.
• The idea that "okay" isn't somewhere you finally get to. It's somewhere you come from.
• "I don't know yet" can be a place of trust, not anxiety.

The reframe: you don't have to make peace happen. It returns by itself when there's less in the way.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, can't switch off, or need a few quiet minutes to reset, this one's for you. It also works well at bedtime.

Please don't listen while driving or operating machinery.

Awake at 3am going over a conversation? Anxious on an ordinary afternoon when nothing is wrong? Quietly empty, even though you’ve got most of what you worked for?

You’re not broken, and you don’t need fixing.

I’m Russell Davis, a therapist and coach. Each week on Clarity Within we take one feeling most of us know well (overthinking, second guessing, burnout, feeling like a fraud) and look at where it’s really coming from. The aim is to leave you with less on your mind, not to give you more to do.

Formerly You Unleashed.