313: Letting Go of External Validation (with Kristen Pierce)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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If you are holding on to dark secrets or some things from your past that you're carrying shame for, this is the episode for you. Kristen shares how she realized she was seeking external validation, how she learned to let go of it, and how she became able to love herself enough to give herself the self-validation she needed.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. On this episode, we'll be talking about |
| 0:05.0 | letting go of the need for external validation and giving yourself the validation you need. Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, I'm Jen Ritey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. |
| 0:20.6 | You'll gain the emotional, physical, |
| 0:22.3 | and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, |
| 0:27.7 | and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast. Well, hey there, |
| 0:34.6 | my friends, we have an important episode for you today talking about those things in our lives that cause us to worry what other people think of us. |
| 0:45.1 | Maybe it's a parent who was an alcoholic. Maybe it was a divorce. Maybe it was someone being incarcerated. We all have these little skeletons, so to speak, in our closet |
| 0:56.4 | that we worry, what if people knew? What if people found out what happened in my past? |
| 1:03.2 | Well, my guest today, Kristen Pierce, has exactly such a story. It's not a story that inherently should be shameful, but she was a child and a teen |
| 1:14.0 | when she was going through this experience, and it formed and affected how she thought about herself. |
| 1:20.8 | As you know, when we're young, we tend to internalize everything happening as if it's our own fault. |
| 1:27.3 | Parents fighting, parents divorcing, |
| 1:29.4 | parents having problems. And we can carry that shame forward if we don't use or come to |
| 1:36.2 | understand the tools that can help us to release those experiences. Tools like inner child |
| 1:41.3 | work, which Kristen talks about in this episode so beautifully. |
| 1:46.0 | So if you have some deep, dark secrets or some things you might be carrying shame for from your |
| 1:52.5 | past, whether it's growing up or things that happen in your college years or maybe early |
| 1:58.0 | marriage, whatever that is for you, this is the episode for you. |
| 2:02.2 | Because when we can release that shame and stop worrying what other people think of us |
| 2:07.8 | and just know deep in our hearts that we've got our own backs, that we are absolutely good enough, |
| 2:13.6 | no matter where we came from, what kind of family we had, what we may have experienced, |
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