You Are Not Broken

About this episode

Steve Kay and Kali Fraser discuss the narrative of being 'broken' and the impact of social media on self-perception.

Welcome back to the NLP UK Training podcast! Hosted by NLP Trainers Steve Kay and Kali Fraser from NLPUKTraining.com – a leading provider of NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner certification in the UK. In this episode, Steve and Kali challenge a powerful and increasingly common narrative… the idea that we are somehow broken and need fixing. From social media highlight reels to the medicalisation of normal human emotions, they explore how modern culture can subtly convince us that sadness, frustration, grief, or comparison mean something is wrong with us. Through personal stories and reflections – from bereavement to Instagram illusions – they unpack how easy it is to measure our everyday reality against someone else’s carefully edited moment and conclude that we’re falling short. The message is both grounding and liberating... you are not broken. Feeling grief after loss is human. Feeling frustrated at injustice is human. Having a bad day while someone else posts champagne photos is human. Drawing on NLP and the Three Principles, Steve and Kali remind listeners that comparison is often the thief of joy, and that most of what we judge ourselves against is incomplete or…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Kay, Kali Fraser

Topics covered

• self-acceptance
• mental health
• comparison
• NLP
• human emotions
• social media

Keywords

• broken
• self-improvement
• NLP
• human emotions
• social media
• comparison
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NLPUKTraining.com

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