5 Strategies For Getting Honest with Yourself
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Okay time for some real talks.
Mentally beating yourself up, talking shit to yourself, and using negative motivation are not long-term, sustainable, kind solutions to making change in your life.
Practicing self-compassion – the awareness and attempts to soothe your own pain – is so incredibly important. And yes, when you're used to using the former strategy to prompt change, self-compassion can feel fkn hard. But that's why self-compassion is a practice…rarely something you can flip the switch on overnight.
People often ask, "Well if I'm kind to myself, then I'm just letting myself be lazy and [insert here, usually has to do with catastrophic-type thinking] will happen."
Here's a subtle distinction that my help you:
Self-compassion can co-exist with getting super honest with yourself. Getting honest with yourself and taking responsibility for what's been under your control is NOT the same as negative self-talk. But often, it takes looking at a situation as objectively as possible before you're able to move ahead.
What you don't see honestly is hard to address objectively.
In this episode, I'm sharing five strategies that may help you move forward with self-compassion + honesty:
In this episode I covered:
- What self-compassion is
- How honesty and self-compassion can exist
- Why honesty is necessary for objective action
- Why catastrophic or all-or-nothing thinking isn't helpful
- 5 strategies for getting more honest with yourself
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 234 of Harder to Kill radio. I am Steph Godro, your host, and I'm really |
| 0:08.6 | glad that you're joining me for another Friday edition of the show, what I call Fierce Love Friday. |
| 0:14.7 | And that's when I get on the mic solo |
| 0:16.4 | and share some thoughts, hopefully some takeaways |
| 0:19.7 | with you, and sometimes a bit of real talk and some chili peppers in the process. |
| 0:26.3 | Today's show I'm going to be talking about honesty. |
| 0:30.1 | Ooh, this is going to be a good one and it's really something that I am working on and I'm sure that you are working on too. |
| 0:40.0 | It's especially top of mind for me right now as I'm considering restructuring some things in my business |
| 0:47.2 | and I have had to get a really, really honest with myself about some of my self-limiting beliefs and my money |
| 0:55.8 | mindset and a bunch of other things. |
| 0:58.3 | Shout out to Laura Schoenfeld. My dear friend, she's been on this podcast before her and I have been going back and |
| 1:06.1 | forth on the Foxer app about all of this stuff. Anyway, if you have somebody in |
| 1:10.0 | your life who you can talk to about these topics today. |
| 1:13.4 | Somebody who is not going to pull any punches |
| 1:15.3 | and let you keep swallowing your own bullshit, |
| 1:18.8 | highly recommend. |
| 1:20.3 | So we're going to get into some very actionable stuff today along with this dose of real talk |
| 1:27.1 | And by the way I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I have a new microphone and I'm in love with how it sounds. It's a bit of an upgrade from what I was using before. |
| 1:38.0 | When I started podcasting in June of 2015, so over four years ago, |
| 1:43.7 | look, I just bought the thing that I could afford |
| 1:46.5 | and just got started. |
| 1:49.1 | And I encourage you, whatever is the thing |
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