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.

Hey, guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. This is episode 549. Next week, we have a cool number, 550.

But I like this number two, 549. I'm so happy you are here listening to the show, if you're hard on yourself, if you're a high achiever, if you're a recovering perfectionist, if you're super driven, if you're type A.

This episode is for you, okay? Y'all are greatest strengths as doers, as achievers, as people who are driven to make a difference in this world.

That's our strength, and then the challenge is the self-critical voice that comes behind and swoops behind us, saying we're not doing enough, we're not being enough, we're not where we're supposed to be, the constant self-criticism that we have learned to modify and accommodate.

As if it is encouraging us, as if it is keeping the fire under us, y'all, you're wired in such a driven way that you don't need to self-create and add more fire to the fire, it's in your blood.

Your drive and your desire for excellence is in how God wired you. You don't have to be self-critical to motivate yourself.

But I want to share with you today how self-kindness can transform your ability to achieve, it will help you tap into more success with more ease than you ever believed possible.

We call it easy success in my coaching practice, and it's ready for you now.

So in this episode, we're going to be talking about the important topic of self-kindness and not in a fluffy way, but for those of you who tend to be super driven and self-critical.

Because it's all too easy to fall into the trap of negative self-talk and self-plain.

But when you learn to treat yourself with kindness and compassion, you unlock the door to building healthy self-image and a healthy mental well-being and more effective follow-through.

So I'm going to give you everything you need to know to stop putting so much pressure on yourself.

You're, you're talking, you're listening to the queen of self-pressure, and I just want you to be done with it.

I have to still, I spent so many years pressureing myself, bullying myself, really white knackling it to achieve my goals that I didn't think there would be another way.

And if I can find another way, if I can change, then you can too.

So in this episode, we're going to talk about how to drop the self-critical pressure that you're putting on yourself.

And I, so even though I've made massive leaps and bounds of growth in this area, I still need to remind myself, hey, Trish, there's no pressure here.

Hey, Trish, we've, we've outgrown putting pressure on ourselves. That's a power thought that's been very, very helpful in life giving to me.

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