334. How to fully trust yourself
The Psychology of your 20s
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We live in a world full of opinions, advice, and expectations - and somewhere in the noise, our own inner voice can get drowned out. Learning to trust yourself sounds simple, but in practice it’s a hard skills to build. Doubt, fear of mistakes, and the pressure to “get it right” often pull us away from what we already know deep down.
In this episode, we explore the psychology of self-trust: how it develops, why it falters, and what it really means to listen to yourself in a culture that constantly tells you to look outward for answers.
We’ll explore:
• Why self-trust is so crucial in this decade
• Self-trust as the antidote to anxiety
• How self-trust is shaped by early experiences and current circumstances
• Small ways to practice trusting yourself again
• Why trusting yourself is less about certainty and more about self-respect
If you’ve ever second-guessed yourself into exhaustion, or felt like your inner compass has gone quiet, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.7 | through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast, new listeners, old |
| 0:32.9 | listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we, of course, |
| 0:39.4 | break down the psychology of our 20s. If you have been around for a little while, you might |
| 0:46.5 | remember that at the start of each year, I kind of like to set a theme for the next 12 months to |
| 0:54.1 | come as part of like our welcome to the new year like podcast series that I do every new year. |
| 1:00.6 | For 2025, this year's intention, it was the year for trusting yourself, which to me I think really meant like letting yourself be a little bit afraid, trusting yourself |
| 1:12.8 | in situations you haven't been before, honoring your intuition amongst many other things. |
| 1:18.0 | And today I wanted to kind of return to that New Year pledge and do like a check in for like |
| 1:25.3 | the final, what is it? Like final third of the year. I'll be honest. |
| 1:31.1 | And I said this in the initial episode, trusting myself is something I've always struggled with. |
| 1:37.6 | I can think of so many moments where I knew deep down what was the right decision for me, |
| 1:48.3 | but I still asked five other people what they thought. |
| 1:50.4 | Or I still hesitated. |
| 1:58.5 | Everything from when I wanted to break up with my first boyfriend to literally like the other week, I was at IKEA and I was like trying to decide what lamp to buy. |
| 2:04.5 | This like opinion shopping that I often do either leads me to an outcome that I don't really want, not because of the other people, but because of me, |
| 2:08.3 | or it takes me so much longer to act on things that were pretty emotionally in time sensitive. |
| 2:13.8 | And later on, I look back and I think, why did I not just listen to myself? Like in hindsight, |
| 2:18.9 | it was so clear what I wanted. It was so clear what I was being called to do and I just didn't |
| 2:25.5 | have that sense of trust that I actually was making the right decision or that I could trust my |
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