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.

Hey guys it's Trish Blackwell your host of the conference podcast. This is

episode number 378 and man do I love today's topic. We are talking about

approval addiction and that is something I think a lot of people struggle with but

don't necessarily have the word to describe it so you now have it maybe it's

maybe you want to call yours approval addiction maybe you want to call your approval addiction,

maybe you want to call your affirmation addiction,

but there's a performance addiction

that affects our identity

because we are waiting for others to say

that we're enough in order for us to believe that we're enough.

And I hope that you're inspired of today's episode to realize that you are enough, that your identity

isn't based on what you do, but based on who you are enough that your identity isn't based on what you do but based on who you are.

Approval addiction or affirmation addiction as we call it is a rampant and debilitating pattern.

It's a pattern you guys. It's something that we can

break. It's not just how we are or who we are. It's something we can break and

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