Why You Feel “Not Good Enough” & How to Erase It w/ Shelly Lefkoe

About this episode

Shelly Lefkoe discusses how to overcome limiting beliefs and the impact they have on self-worth and behavior.

Shelly Lefkoe is the Co-founder of The Lefkoe Institute, an organization focused on improving quality of life by eliminating limiting beliefs. Over a career spanning more than 35 years, she has assisted over 150,000 people globally in overcoming deep seated emotional and behavioral challenges. In today’s episode, Shelly joins me to break down how limiting beliefs are formed, why they feel so real, and how they silently control your behavior, emotions, and results in life. We dive into the difference between patterns and beliefs, and why most self improvement methods fail to create lasting change. Shelly reveals the 5 most common beliefs nearly everyone has, including why you feel “not good enough” or “not important”, and how these beliefs drive your actions. Shelly also shares her personal relaunch story after a major loss, how she overcame her limiting beliefs, and turned a struggling business into a thriving organization. Our conversation goes into how beliefs are created, how meaning is formed in the mind, and why events have no inherent meaning. Shelly also shares a powerful, real time exercise to build and dissolve certain beliefs, including how to reframe certain childhood…

People in this episode

Host: Hilary DeCesare

Guest: Shelly Lefkoe

Topics covered

• limiting beliefs
• self improvement
• emotional challenges
• confidence
• personal growth
• overcoming self doubt

Keywords

• not good enough
• limiting beliefs
• self doubt
• emotional patterns
• personal relaunch
• confidence
• behavior control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Lefkoe Institute

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