165: De-Mucking Your Life and Rebuilding Confidence with Cortney McDermott

About this episode

Cortney McDermott discusses how to rebuild confidence and reconnect with your inner knowing through simple practices.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Learning to Glow, I’m joined by Cortney McDermott, author of Give Yourself Permission. We talk about confidence, intuition, and how to reconnect with your inner knowing when life starts to feel rigid or overly structured. Cortney shares the idea of “de mucking” your life and explains how simple practices like movement, walking, journaling, and gratitude can help clear mental noise so you can trust yourself more fully. • Why real confidence starts with learn...

People in this episode

Host: Jess

Guest: Cortney McDermott

Topics covered

• confidence
• intuition
• self-trust
• mental clarity
• personal growth

Keywords

• confidence
• intuition
• de mucking
• mental noise
• gratitude
• journaling
• movement

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Give Yourself Permission

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