Proof That Trusting Yourself IS Possible (Despite What Anxiety Says)

About this episode

Jessica explores how anxiety undermines self-trust and offers strategies for rebuilding it.

"You should have known better." "You screwed it up." "You're going to make a mistake again." These are the nasty things anxiety can say to keep you from trusting yourself. When you live with anxiety, trusting yourself can feel impossible. In this episode, Jessica explores how anxiety makes you doubt your judgement and convinces you that you can't make good decisions about your life — and how to start rebuilding trust in yourself through compassion, reflection, and learning from the past...

People in this episode

Host: Jessica

Topics covered

• trusting yourself
• anxiety
• self-compassion
• decision making

Keywords

• self-doubt
• judgment
• reflection
• learning from the past

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