407: Melissa Ambrosini on How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others and Be Genuinely Happy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/melissaambrosini407
Melissa Ambrosini (IG: @melissaambrosini) is a bestselling author and was named a “Self-Help Guru” by Elle Magazine.
She’s the host of The Melissa Ambrosini Show, where she shares her wisdom and interviews the biggest thought leaders and experts in the world to help her audience unlock their full potential and live their dream life.
Today we're discussing Melissa's new book, Comparisonitis: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others and Be Genuinely Happy.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Pregnancy to parenthood, the next chapter
- Consciously trying to conceive for 18 months
- How to heal your Comparisonitis
- The ACES Technique
- Examples of healthy comparison vs. toxic comparison
- Don’t compare yourself to someone else
- Children learn by watching us
- After Melissa hit rock bottom she made it her mission to heal
- How yoga & meditation inspired Melissa to grow and evolve
- The book that changed Melissa's life
- The realization that we’re all comparing ourselves to everyone else
- Why Melissa & Nick shelved the book they were writing together
- Stop taking your phone to the toilet
- We need to stay in our own lane
- How much time are you spending on social media each day?
- Plan a social media free Sunday
- Social media is everyone’s highlight reel
- Delete the word perfect/perfection from your vocabulary
- Do more things that make you forget to look at your phone
- Know your core values
- Data shows we spend 6 years on social media and 10 years on our phones
- Exposing children to smartphones stunts their growth
- The tactics social media platforms use to keep you online
- A behind the scenes look at social media influencers
- Follow people who inspire you
- People commonly compare themselves to...
- Stop shaming parents and ourselves
- Let go of feeling guilty
- Comparison is detrimental to our mental health
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Related links:
Melissa Ambrosini - Comparisonitis (book)
Follow Melissa Ambrosini on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Melissa Ambrosini - Open Wide (book)
Melissa Ambrosini - Mastering Your Mean Girl (book)
Listen to Melissa Ambrosini previously on TUHP (episodes #095 and #217)
Nick Broadhurst (Melissa's husband)
Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life (book)
Listen to Cal Newport previously on TUHP (episodes #286 and #396)
The Social Dilemma (Netflix documentary)
Related episodes:
374: Dr. Jud Brewer – The Craving Mind, Finding Joy In Meditation, Overcoming Addictions
362: Lori Gottlieb – Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
328: Kyle Cease – The Illusion Of Money, Sitting In Silence, Social Media Boundaries
243: Susan David – Emotional Agility • The Tyranny Of Positivity • Understanding Guilt & Shame
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | The data shows that in a lifetime, |
| 0:04.6 | we spend about six years of our life on social media, |
| 0:09.2 | 10 years in total on our phone. |
| 0:12.0 | Then I'm talking consistently, |
| 0:13.8 | like six full years 24, seven and 10 full years 24, seven, |
| 0:18.7 | looking at your phone, holding your phone. |
| 0:21.2 | And I just think, wow, that is wild. |
| 0:24.3 | What could we do with that time? |
| 0:27.2 | And a lot of it is just scrolling and comparing. |
| 0:30.7 | And it's just unnecessary. |
| 0:33.0 | And it causes a lot of mental health issues |
| 0:35.5 | like I've mentioned before. |
| 0:37.4 | And we just don't need to do it. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, life is so precious. |
| 0:41.8 | It's so sacred. |
| 0:43.3 | It's so beautiful. |
| 0:44.9 | And we don't need to waste any of our precious time |
| 0:48.2 | or energy comparing ourselves to anyone else |
| 0:51.1 | because the truth is like we are a miracle. |
| 0:54.2 | We are magical. |
| 0:55.5 | And we don't need to waste our time comparing. |
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