205: The Lies We Tell
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Join me on the podcast this week to discover how you might be lying to yourself and why this habit is keeping you from experiencing the true joy that life has to offer. As my grandmother told me when I was a little girl, the truth will set you free, so I'm sharing the lies I used to tell in my own life, and the pure magnificence that honesty has brought me since.
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| 0:00.0 | The truth, it may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. |
| 0:07.0 | When ignored, it will eventually show itself. |
| 0:10.0 | The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have |
| 0:16.4 | revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful, but I'll add, it's so worth it. |
| 0:23.0 | Author unknown. |
| 0:25.0 | Bonjour! |
| 0:30.0 | And welcome to the French Kids Live podcast, where personal development meets style. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Tanya Lee, certified master life coach, and the hostess of this party, where we explore |
| 0:41.8 | how to live artfully and well. |
| 0:44.5 | Each week I'll be sharing inspiring stories, practical tips, |
| 0:48.6 | and timeless wisdom on how to elevate the quality of your everyday and celebrate along the way. Let's dive |
| 0:56.3 | into today's episode. Hello my beautiful friends. Today we are talking about a very exciting topic, |
| 1:05.3 | which is the lies we tell ourselves. |
| 1:09.6 | I found a piece of writing that I wrote years and years ago and it just reminded me of the work that I |
| 1:17.0 | continue to do on myself because I still catch myself in lies, the lies that I tell myself. You see with our brain we can justify just |
| 1:26.8 | about anything to avoid facing the truth. It's like all of those years that I would go to bed at night and I would promise myself |
| 1:34.8 | tomorrow morning when I wake up I'm going to start my diet. |
| 1:38.7 | In the moment I told myself that I knew I was lying to myself but in the moment it felt so much better to lie to |
| 1:45.2 | myself than to face the truth and the truth for me at that moment was I wasn't |
| 1:50.4 | planning on starting tomorrow but I just needed relief from the pain of my weight struggles. |
| 1:57.3 | And so by lying to myself every night, I had a little bit of relief, a little bit of hope. But when I started to get really honest with myself, that's when my life |
| 2:06.7 | began to change. And honestly, I still find myself lying to myself. And one of the practices that I've been working on is just telling myself and others the truth, the truth of how I'm feeling, the truth of what I'm thinking. I want to live in a world free of lies. |
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