Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about facing your fears.

Hey guys, how are you?

We are at the end of October, and it is like Halloween time. Are you guys doing anything fun for Halloween? I have a few different parties. We're actually throwing a party and that will be fun. My husband and I are going to dress up as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis. So that will be fun.

If you want to see a picture, you can probably go follow me on palm.com.com at Instagram and I'm sure I'll

post a picture of her costume. But I'm super excited. This is a fun time of year. So, I mean, you get free candy.

So what's not to like about that? I don't know. Do you guys still dress up? I feel like it's kind of a

weird thing as a teen where like, you know, as a kid you dress up, but then you hit a point where

you're like, I'm too old for that. But then sometimes there's parties and then it's cool again.

So I don't know.

You have to let me know.

So I wanted to shout out a listener, M. Rose 28.

She wrote a review on iTunes.

It says, I have very low self-esteem and I've always been thinking bad about myself.

And I've been listening to your podcast and sometimes I think positive about myself.

But it's like I'm scared to be positive because I feel like someone is going to slap me back down.

I feel like I'm going to get my hopes up.

Like maybe I am pretty.

But then someone's going to tell me I'm not and just slap my hopes back down again.

And I just wanted to respond to you with that review. I think this

is super common. You know, when you start to think positive, part of the reason our brands like to be

negative about things is because it feels safer to us. Because we feel like we're protecting ourselves somehow.

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