Do you trust yourself to be happy?

About this episode

The episode discusses the tendency to undermine our own happiness and the importance of recognizing and embracing joyful moments.

022: Am I the only one who does this weird thing where when you notice yourself feeling happy, you course correct to bring yourself back down? As soon as you catch a break, experience a win, or have joy show up in your life, your knee-jerk reaction is to tell yourself, Well, this won’t last long. When we stop to think about it and admit it out loud like that, it does seem silly that we do that, doesn’t it? (I’m saying we because I do the same thing!) Why can’t we just let ourselve...

People in this episode

Host: Elizabeth Wiegner

Topics covered

• self-trust
• happiness
• mindset
• emotional well-being
• self-reflection

Keywords

• happiness
• self-doubt
• mindset
• emotional health
• self-improvement

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