Play the long game

Play the long game

From Authentic by Kat John

May 10, 2026 · 29 min · Episode 357

About this episode

Kat John discusses the pressure of wanting to heal and grow quickly, and the suffering that mindset can create.

In this episode, I speak about the pressure I used to put on myself to heal quicker, grow quicker, feel better quicker, and become “better” faster. I genuinely believed that if I was doing the work on myself, then surely I should be further along by now. That mindset created so much suffering. I was constantly living with this quiet pressure in the background of my life, telling myself to hurry up, get there already, figure it out, fix it, improve. I struggled to let life unfold because I was...

People in this episode

Host: Kat John

Topics covered

  • self-improvement
  • healing
  • personal growth
  • mindset
  • life unfolding

Keywords

  • healing
  • personal growth
  • mindset
  • self-improvement
  • life pressure

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