You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. You're one-stop-shot for motivation,

inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams. I'm your

host Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach and founder of the College of

Competence and I teach women how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of their shadows of

self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their

purpose with confidence. It's time to train your thoughts. Let's get started.

Let's get started. Welcome to the Confidence Podcast. This is episode number

376 and we're talking about something near and dear like super near and dear to my

heart today and that is body confidence.

I want to talk to you about self-criticism and fundamentally, how to like yourself in the

mirror. How to like yourself more. Maybe you kind of feel pretty confident but you tend to call it a

perfectionist. Oh, I'm just hard to myself. Bottom line, being self-critical about how you look,

is one of the most sure-fire ways to deeply,

to feel and initiate and fire up that deeply insecure and uncomfortable place.

Speaking from first-hand experience, it feels like you're crawling inside your skin.

It feels like you're stuck in your skin and you can't express what makes you feel so

uncomfortable but you just want to hide from the world and I want to let you know that

you deserve better God created you beautifully and today's podcast is going to

teach you how to go from knowing that that, knowing that I know I'm beautiful, I know I'm unique, I know

I'm snowflake, all the things to actually believing it and you're going to learn how to see yourself

with kind eyes in the mirror so that you can change your internal self-dialogue

and start building yourself up instead of always tearing yourself down.

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