You're listening to The Confidence Podcast, your favorite coaching podcast oozing with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the internet.

I teach go getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Well, hey there, it's Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach, and you are listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode number 457.

Y'all, we are in tune up on that number 500, and you know it's gonna be good. I can't wait to celebrate. Make sure you are following the podcast, you are subscribed, and you're sharing it with people you love, because sharing is caring.

So, hey, today we're talking about how to give yourself approval and believe you're good enough, because not feeling good enough, and always needing the affirmation, the approval, the acceptance, the advice of others, it can severely limit your ability to tap into your fullest potential, and your greatest amount of joy in life.

This coaching today that you're gonna get on the podcast is going to explore the process of some ways you can start to learn how to give yourself approval rather than depend on the approval of others, how to believe you're enough, and how to trust your own decisions, even if you've struggled in the past, with being a people pleaser, or with thriving on words of affirmation, or depending on someone else to tell you what to do.

As always, you can get the full show notes at my website, trishblackwell.com, 4-4-5-7. More specifically, I'm diving into today in the coaching, how to break your overattachment to people's affirmation, their approval, their opinions, again, even if your love language is a words of affirmation, because I'm raising my hand here, that's my love language.

And so I have a hard time detaching from that in much of my life, but if I can learn, you can too.

We're also going to be talking about how to learn to give yourself approval, trust yourself, and be your own voice of encouragement, how to be your own cheerleader, how to know when you're on the right path, when the path isn't visible, or laid out by someone else.

And then I'm going to give you a close out the coaching today, the podcast with a list of affirmations that you can use to speak life into yourself, and the ones that will help you believe that you're good enough, and that will help you trust your own voice, your intuition, and your innate God-given potential.

Hey, before we dive into coaching, our review of the week is from Sage SC, awesome podcast by The Stars.

Sage says, Church's calming voice, relatable storytelling, and spot-on advice has been so helpful for me. I just started a new job within my company, and the confidence and stop caring what people think specific episodes have been really beneficial to me.

I love that she has so many episodes that I can glance through and take what I need for the day. Sage, it's my privilege to give you that boost of confidence and freedom and reminder of who you are.

You guys, that's all I do. My, excuse me, I'm fighting a little little frog in my throat here today. That's all I do. My job as your coach is to simply remind you of how amazing God made you.

To remind you of who you are, to not remind you that your idea of what is possible for you is not even scratching the surface.

And we get to that place when we stop caring what others think, and when we really strengthen our confidence, mental confidence, muscle, and sage, you're doing it. Congratulations. Congrats on the new job. Keep it going. Keep it up.

Okay, guys, let's coach. Okay, first it's important to note that here's the deal. I think sometimes we get trapped into a pattern and a behavioral reliance on waiting for other people to tell us what to do.

Meeting other people's approval, waiting for somebody to say, yep, that's good enough. Or yes, that's your next step. We want confirmation and affirmation.

And what that does is it causes hesitation. And so let's just put it out here.

The path is unknown. What is ahead of you is impossible. Now, even if you are following the most traditional, most conservative trajectory that you think you could plan out, you still don't know the future.

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