You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in 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, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast episode 532. We're talking today about resisting a victim mindset, especially in negative seasons of life.

When you feel like life is just happening because let's be honest, we can't avoid the human experience. I would love to tell you that it is going to be easy, that you won't have problems, but we were promised trouble in this world.

And so when life feels like it's happening to you, and everything that could go wrong is going wrong, I want you to know that I know that it's hard to stay positive.

You want to stay strong, but the negativity feels overwhelming, and the bad news just keeps coming in, wavy after wave, and you're feeling beaten down.

You're tired of getting back up, you're tired of trying to stay positive and put that smile on the face, and it feels like it's never going to end, and you look around at those around you, and everyone else seems to have it easier than you.

I've been there, I get it, but I want you to know that season ends.

In this podcast episode, you're going to learn how to talk back to that victim mindset, how to not get sucked into the sinking sand of a pity party, and how to keep yourself encouraged through the season of suck, so that you get through it stronger because of your mindset, so that you know how to look at life and say this happened for me, not to me, how to get hold of your brain when the world feels like it's collapsing.

And you're so mentally and emotionally and physically exhausted that you don't know how to move forward. Look, I realize I can't believe I has been such a long time since we've done an episode on this.

It happened to be someone reached out in my messaging on Facebook and said, hey, Trish, I need a podcast episode on blank and blank, and I said, well, what's going on in your life?

This kind of listed out all of these awful things happening, and how defeated and burnt down they were and beaten up and discouraged.

And I realized that I don't have a podcast that walks you through the steps to take a season like that, a season where it's very easy, very natural to feel like a victim, and to make yourself victorious.

The victim mindset is one that's natural. We very easily start to feel sorry for ourselves, especially when it's wave after wave after wave of bad news, whether it's financial struggles or medical diagnosis or heartbreak or things that are happening or just the news.

It's easy to feel discouraged. My prayer is that this episode gives your heart courage that you know that you don't have to be blanketed by the emotion of defeat and that that victim mindset where you feel helpless when you are a victim, you have no power.

You will take your power back when you start to talk back to the victim mindset. So cannot wait to go into that. We're going to be talking about that all today.

Hey, if you don't know the podcast yet, if this is your first time listening, I just want to introduce myself. My name is Trish. I help men and women who put too much pressure on themselves, learn how to stop self-sabotaging, stop overthinking, stop comparing and start thriving.

We have clients and students learn how to lose confidence and create unwavering belief in their wildest dreams all while having more fun, living with more joy and creating the impact in the world they were created to make.

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