124. The Difference Between Working on Yourself and Working With Yourself
About this episode
This episode discusses the shift from working on oneself to working with oneself in the context of personal growth and decision making.
Have you turned every decision into proof of your personal growth? Here’s what changes when you stop working on yourself and start working with yourself. Have you ever noticed how quickly a simple decision can turn into a referendum on your personal growth? You start out trying to decide whether to take an opportunity, apply for something, or say yes to a request. Then somewhere along the way, the decision becomes much bigger. It has to solve the situation in front of you while also proving that you’ve healed, grown, and learned the lesson. That’s a lot to ask of one decision. In this episode I name what happens when self-awareness turns into self-evaluation, when personal growth becomes a performance standard, and what actually shifts when you stop treating yourself as a project and start working with yourself instead. In this episode, we’ll cover: How the expectation of emotional clarity and consistency becomes another form of waiting Why self-trust doesn’t require you to feel the same way every day — it requires you to stay in relationship with yourself while different feelings move through The difference between listening to a feeling and letting it make the decision for you…
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