You're listening to the Confidence Podcast, your one-stop shop for motivation,

inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly and bravely take action on your dreams.

I'm your host Trish Blackwell and I teach entrepreneurs and dream chasers to take action on the dream got put on their hearts.

I empower go-getters to get past their stubborn insecurity so they can crush their goals, outgrow their fears, and create

prosperity in their businesses and lives. It's time to rise and shine. Let's dive

deep. You guys, we are diving deep today on how to be happy at where you're at.

So not the sexiest topic because the reality is that I think just about everybody struggles

with us with this worrying if we're behind or

feeling like we're behind or thinking we're not as far as we where we should be or maybe

we're doing the wrong thing in this constant self-questioning constant constant self-relignment, constantly wondering if in fact we have the right

to be happy, if we indeed have permission to say, I'm doing enough and this is okay and that this is

beautiful and that this is great and that you can let go of that sigh relief and

and release the anxiety that's built up that's waiting for you to achieve one thing or another

in order to be happy and to give yourself permission to be happy and so specifically

in the show you guys know I like to give you a heads up. Here's what we're going to be covering. This is episode number 289. You can get all the show notes at Trish Blackwell.com forward slash 289. We're going to be talking about how to stop comparing yourself to where you think you should be.

We're going to talk about putting yourself into triage for support for being a self-abuser,

because you guys, let's call a spade

of often we disguise quote-to-quote being hard on ourselves or oh I just have high

expectations or oh I'm just a perfectionist, as justifications of what is actually self-abuse and doesn't work.

And abuse is bad. Like, I don't care what you believe in politically or where you stand on

faith or your belief system. I think everyone pretty universally can agree that

abuse is bad. So why is it that okay? Why is it then that we allow

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