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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast Episode 5-61 in today's episode.

We're going to get into self-kindness, but not in a soft, fluffy way. Bear with me.

We're going to talk about how to forgive yourself and love the past. Why? Because self- forgiveness is the start of freedom.

If you're hard on yourself or you tend to beat yourself up for past mistakes or unhealthy habits, this episode is for you.

When you learn how to nurture a narrative of grace and compassion and possibility will open you to a powerful growth mindset.

And it's going to free you from the prison of a fixed and perfectionistic mindset.

This episode is going to help you come to terms with your past self. And even, yeah, I'm going to put this out there.

Even find gratitude and appreciation for the mistakes, the struggles, and the values you've walked through, even those that were self-inflicted.

Because when you can do that, when you can learn to forgive yourself and love the past you, the one that made some maybe decisions that could have been better, the one that was stuck in self-sabotage,

the one that you wish didn't exist in your story. That version of you needed to be part of your story.

That person is the stepping stone and provided you lessons and insight that you needed for the story you're living now to be able to be the person that you are now.

And so we're going to come to terms and build a friendship with that version of ourselves so that you can walk forward without shame.

And absolutely free from fearing that you're going to fall back into being that old person. I think that holds so many people back.

But we're going to learn how to step free today. So in this episode of the confidence podcast, we're talking about the process of self forgiveness and letting go of being hard on yourself.

I'm going to coach you on how to love the past you, even the painful poor decision making you, whether you're beating yourself out for choosing the wrong school, choosing the wrong man, choosing the wrong habits.

I struggled for decades in choosing the wrong self-sabotage, just of choosing self-sabotage.

And then cycling in and out and in this perfectionistic all or nothing pendulum.

And I had to learn to to forget that.

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