Hello everybody and welcome to today's podcast episode. So in today's episode, I'm going to be

talking about feelings of inadequacy because I think that this does, look, it is a little bit

slash very related to feelings of insecurity, but inadequacy is, I'm getting a little bit more

specific on what inadequacy is.

And a lot of people feel this towards where they think they should be and they feel like

they're falling short or they feel like they're a failure or they feel like they're not good

enough.

In particular, this normally comes down to feeling like you're falling short in the eyes of a particular person or in the eyes of a certain group of people.

This is really common with feelings of inadequacy towards a parent.

Often it's the parent of the same sex in general, feeling like you're letting that one parent down.

It could be that you feel like you're always being compared to a sibling and therefore

you feel inadequate next to a sibling.

So that's why I feel like inadequacy is a little bit more, like it's its own topic separate

to feelings of insecurity.

Okay.

So I'm going to go way more, you know, I'm going to delve into that

a whole lot more. But before we get into that, just a life update. Look, nothing too major to

update you guys on, but I did want to touch on something and it's my merchandise. I have

not forgotten about the merchandise. I promise, can you believe that my manager, Maddie and I have

been working on this for months now? There's just so many delays. Everything just takes so much longer

than you think it's going to take. Then you've got to get, like, we've got all the designs done up.

The samples have been made. We've now come back with some corrections on the samples. So

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