About this episode
In this episode, Kat John discusses the importance of giving ourselves permission to change and grow, rather than adhering to past roles and expectations.
Permission sounds simple, but most of us are waiting for it. Waiting for someone to say it’s okay to slow down, okay to change your mind, okay to outgrow something that once made sense. But life rarely hands us that permission, and so, we keep going. We keep doing the roles we’ve always played. We keep carrying responsibilities, expectations, identities that once fit even when something inside us is saying that we’ve changed. Transitions have a way of bringing that nudge to the surface. A shi...
Topics covered
- permission
- self-acceptance
- transitions
- identity
- change
Keywords
- self-improvement
- mental health
- personal growth
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