I have this book called Rising Strong by Brene Brown.....I haven't read much of it yet, but maybe it could apply to this. She mentions the stages of change: how the first stage is new and we're fueled with encouragement, the last stage is where we want to end up, where we actually see the results, and then there's the "messy middle" or "the rumble" as she calls it.....the dark part of the tunnel where we can't see what the hell we're doing. Maybe being "stuck" means we're in the middle stage and we need to just keep going.....