Don't Pre-Apologize for Your Amazing Life!
About this episode
Karen Smith discusses the importance of not pre-apologizing for one's gifts and the impact of self-limiting beliefs.
One of my favorite speakers, Jon Acuff, said something this week that stopped me cold: "We like labels because they offer an explanation for behavior we don't want to change." Ouch. I felt seen, called out, and set free all at the same time and I had to bring it straight to you. In this episode, I'm sharing the quote that changed the way I see every excuse I've ever made, why "I'm just not good at that" might be the most expensive sentence you ever speak over yourself, and what I finally realized after years of running on Karen Power and wondering why I kept hitting the wall. I'm also getting real about a pattern I see in myself and so many of the people I love, pre-apologizing for the very gifts that helped us survive. The affirmations I've been writing since I was ten years old, the ones that carried me through addiction in my home, heartbreak, and seasons with nothing left. I've been calling them "just a little affirmation book." Not anymore. our gifts were never meant to come with an apology. Episode Highlights: [01:12] The labels we use as excuses not to change [03:17] "I'm not talented and smart enough to be unprepared" [06:24] What going to bed discouraged is really…
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