Why High-Functioning Women Stop Trusting Themselves (And How to Come Back)

About this episode

Christina explores the disconnect between external capability and internal self-trust in high-achieving women.

Send us Fan Mail You’re capable. You get things done. You perform under pressure and make decisions quickly — and from the outside, you look like someone who absolutely trusts herself. But what if external capability and internal self-trust are two completely different things? In this episode, Christina explores one of the most overlooked patterns in high-achieving women: the slow, subtle shift from self-guided growth to self-abandonment disguised as self-improvement. If you’ve ever found you...

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Host: Christina Slaback

Topics covered

• self-trust
• high-functioning women
• self-improvement
• self-abandonment
• personal growth

Keywords

• self-trust
• high-functioning women
• self-improvement
• personal growth
• self-abandonment

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