ARE YOU GETTING IN YOUR OWN WAY? THIS IS HOW TO STOP SELF-SABOTAGE…

Podcast #317

This week on The Confidence Podcast we’re chatting about:

• How to know if you’re getting in your own way or if life is getting in your way
• Understanding the real root of self-sabotage 
• 3 ways to stop getting in your own way

REVIEW OF THE WEEK:

Emwarrxox

I am so blessed to have come across your podcast one day searching for something to help build up my confidence and I’ve been listening to it religiously every morning while I get ready for work to get in a good confident headspace. During your podcast, you mention asking for topic requests from your viewers and something I struggle with daily is that I find myself making excuses for people that treat me badly and accepting it. I struggle with standing up for myself and realizing when it’s OK to stop making excuses for other people’s actions and to stop over apologizing to those people when in fact they are the ones who should be apologizing. I just always feel like I’m in the wrong Trish, and I’m tired of it. I hope this makes sense. I love your podcast so much, thank you again for everything you do and for being so open and honest about your life and your struggles. I can’t thank you enough – Em

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HOW TO KNOW IF IT’S YOU OR IF IT’S LIFE

You may not like this answer, but it’s always you.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

We overcomplicate success, often driving us to get in our way.

There are a thousand ways we get in our own way, but here are a few to get your mental juices going > procrastination, poor time management, overeating, overdrinking, over-exercising, perfectionism, waiting to be more prepared, over-committing, overthinking, having mixed priorities, being too obsessed with control.

Be the man in the arena.

I would rather live life all in, than in a protective shell of cautious averageness.

I did the cautious, performance-based route before, and though it may look shiny on the outside, it is empty on the inside.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

UNDERSTANDING THE REAL ROOT OF SELF-SABOTAGE

fear.

Fear drives us to self-protection. If we self-sabotage, we don’t have to be vulnerable, seen, exposed, or risk failing publicly.

So, the real question isn’t why you self-sabotage, but rather, what are you so afraid of?

And then, how can you start speaking to that inner child that is afraid of the monster under the bed of their thoughts?

You can be the parent that comes in, checks the closet, and confirms that it’s safe. It’s okay to need to affirm your safety in order to rev up the boldness but to do that you have to understand your real fear.

In my story, my fear has been a lot of things 

-Lack of control

-Fear of not being noticed

-A belief that I didn’t matter

-Unresolved feelings about family turmoil

-Inability to fix things for others

For my recovery from my eating disorder and body image dysmorphia, letting go of my binge eating and binge exercising was letting go of the fear of lost control.  That fear was really fear of inadequacy, and inadequacy was rooted in shame.  I had shame over how I looked, over how I performed and over how I didn’t measure up to the accolades and acceptance my brother experienced. My fear was that I was forgettable.

But I perpetuated self-sabotage because if I “knew better” and it was an issue of discipline, then I didn’t need to address the deeper issues because the surface issue – the overeating, the over drinking, the over competitiveness, the over scheduling, the overthinking, the over-doing – those things, those things were the pressing problems. They distracted me from what my real problem was – they were a convenient coping mechanism that made me lose self-trust and self-esteem, deepening the feelings of inadequacy I felt in the first place.

THREE WAYS TO STOP GETTING IN YOUR OWN WAY

1. Face your fear and step into the arena.

What does your arena look like? It might be being brave enough to step back into therapy. It might be making your website live and starting to put your message of change out into the world.

2. Go to gratitude in order to forgive yourself and break the cycle.

Life’s about learning; your feelings and thoughts and behaviors are not dictators, they are indicators. Look at the indications and embrace that explorer, adventurer attitude and get curious.

3. Manage your mindset and create space for success.

Create space to think and to feel; my best super-thinking comes when I’m journaling or walking the dog without distraction. Turn off wifi. Work to undo your toxic thinking and be as serious about training your brain as you are about training your body or progressing in your career.  Seek wisdom and believe that God is not done transforming you – and notice the change that has happened. Get a group and a coach.

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