Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about

self-confidence in regards to social media. Hey everyone, welcome to episode 140. If you didn't listen to

last week's episode 139, I would go back and listen to that episode before you start this one.

Last week, we started our social media series and we talked about handling rejection on social media.

If you did listen to last week's episode, how are you all doing on handling rejection on social media? I had an experience actually this

morning when someone reached out to me and didn't agree with something I said and they didn't

like my perspective about an issue and I was like, yep, here goes some rejection. Good thing.

I did a podcast about it last week so I can go listen to it again.

For today's episode, I wanted to cover self-confidence in regards to social media.

Oftentimes we get confused and misguided about what self-confidence really is.

And we use social media as a tool to give ourselves permission to feel self-confident

or not feel self-confident.

We don't need permission from other people on social media to feel self-confident.

So whenever I talk to teens, I ask them what they want and repeatedly,

I hear, I want to be more self-confident. And I agree, who doesn't want to feel more self-confident?

I like to equate real self-confidence to happiness. Whenever we truly feel self-confident, that is when we are the happiest.

And that is why self-confidence feels so good because it is the best source and truest form of happiness.

And we are all searching for happiness. So today, I want to help you understand the distinction between self-confidence

and the feelings of gratification that we get from social media. Social media is fun,

it's satisfying, and it's something that you can do to enjoy yourself, right? We get lots of

pleasure from social media. The problem is, is we so often mistake those feelings

of joy and pleasure with real self-confidence and happiness. Okay. So where do you get your

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