Dr. Jenny Prohaska

Dr. Jenny Prohaska Psychologist โ€ข Founder of Tactical Longevity
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Entrepreneurs are pretty consistently given the rah rah cheerleader encouragement to persist.And sometimes that IS exact...
08/28/2026

Entrepreneurs are pretty consistently given the rah rah cheerleader encouragement to persist.

And sometimes that IS exactly what you need to do.

But sometimes the information is telling you that it's time to adapt and change.

One of the harder parts of entrepreneurship is catching that signal accurately.

Am I uncomfortable because this is hard? Or is the information telling me I need to change course?

That requires more than just blind persistence. It requires enough self-awareness to recognize your own reactions and decipher their likely origins and meaning, enough emotional restraint and self-regulation to see the situation clearly through the emotions, and enough mental flexibility to change it up when the evidence calls for it.

Sometimes great entrepreneurship means staying the course. And sometimes it means adapting.

Self-awareness. Self-regulation. Mental flexibility. Three of the six capacities that make up Tactical Longevity.

People can do really hard things.What is much harder is doing them when you donโ€™t know when theyโ€™re going to end. Uncert...
08/25/2026

People can do really hard things.

What is much harder is doing them when you donโ€™t know when theyโ€™re going to end.

Uncertainty is the louder of the stressors.

I spoke with The Hill about prolonged uncertainty, human capacity, and why not knowing when something will end can sometimes be harder than the hard thing itself.

Read the full article in The Hill. Link in the comments.
Tactical Longevity

Parents wake up at two o'clock in the morning thousands of times while raising their children. None of them would tell y...
08/12/2026

Parents wake up at two o'clock in the morning thousands of times while raising their children.
None of them would tell you it's easy, or even enjoyable, but they do it anyway day after day.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ.
Or at least, not grit alone.

People don't willingly endure hardship because it's easy.
They do it because the struggle is connected to something deeply meaningful.

๐Œ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ.. It doesn't erase discomfort, uncertainty, or exhaustion, but it changes what we're willing to endure.

When people know why they're doing something, they can often tolerate far more than they ever imagined.

And that's an important distinction when we talk about resilience.

The goal isn't simply to become better at enduring hard things. It's to build the psychological capacity to find meaning in them, adapt through them, and ultimately become stronger because of them.

๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ข๐ญ.

That's Tactical Longevity.

After nearly a decade treating trauma, one question kept coming back...Why do some people experience unimaginable advers...
08/11/2026

After nearly a decade treating trauma, one question kept coming back...
Why do some people experience unimaginable adversity and continue to grow, while others remain trapped by it?
That question changed the direction of my workโ€”and ultimately became the foundation of Tactical Longevity.
In this conversation, I share the realization that reshaped how I think about trauma, resilience, and psychological durability.
๐ŸŽฅ Watch the full conversation through the link in our bio and down below in the comments.

08/06/2026

We were wrong.
That's not something I say lightly.
For years, we've approached mental health through a particular lens. But what if one of our biggest mistakes wasn't a lack of effortโ€”it was misunderstanding the problem itself?
In this conversation, I share why I believe we've mistaken a developmental failure for a mental health problem, and why that distinction changes everything.
I'd love for you to watch the full conversation and let me know what you think. Link also in bio.
๐ŸŽฅ https://youtu.be/We_SkZTgxTY

08/05/2026

When people we care about experience something traumatic, our instinct is often to take over FOR them. But one of the most important things you can do to truly help someone is to give them back a sense of control - which often means NOT taking over for them.
Even something as simple as letting someone choose their next step can interrupt the feeling of lack of control and begin rebuilding confidence.

07/30/2026

Some calls never end. I feel for the first responders who had to testify today in the trial. CNN COURT TV

07/30/2026

Stress reveals your values. Thereโ€™s no time or energy left to filter them. Todayโ€™s Fauci testimony (and clarity on his choices and actions throughout the pandemic- thanks dear diary) gave us a potential learning experience.

07/29/2026

What if we've spent decades asking the wrong question?
This observation changed the direction of my workโ€”and how I think about trauma, resilience, and human performance.
The full conversation is now on YouTube.
๐ŸŽฅ Check it out through the link in my bio.

For nearly a decade, I focused my work on treating trauma.During that time, one question kept bothering me.What have we ...
07/23/2026

For nearly a decade, I focused my work on treating trauma.

During that time, one question kept bothering me.

What have we missed if we have spent decades studying why people struggle, but not enough time studying why some people don't?

That curiosity changed the trajectory of my career.

It shifted my focus from treating pathology alone to understanding adaptation with this question:
What helps people build the capacity to withstand adversity?

I recently shared the story behind that shift and why it became the foundation of Tactical Longevity. If you'd like to hear the full conversation, I've linked the YouTube video in the comments.

I'm curious, what do you think has most contributed to people being able to withstand suffering and come out on the other side of the experience?

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