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HERself

60. Minimizing Comparison to Maximize Your Life

HERself

Abby and Amy

Best Self, Parenting, Opportunity, Purpose, Kids & Family, Grow, Future, Real, Honest, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Comparison, Health & Fitness, Vulnerable, Education

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Comparison is such a trap. In this week's episode we talk about comparison in parenting, possessions, body composition/body image, and relationships. Let's be real: we live in a swipe up world that can leave us always lusting over what we need to buy next. We scroll past diets and workouts galore all promising to shrink our bodies. We hear exactly how we're supposed to respond to tantrums and shame ourselves for how we raised our voices earlier. AND we read captions of couples that ...

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0:14.9

There are things that you can work on things that you have to become self-aware of things that your partner needs to become aware of and Drew and I kind of joke about this but sometimes when you hear a suggestion from someone outside your marriage, it sounds like a really great suggestion.

0:18.0

Sometimes if you hear it from your partner, you're like, I'm not sure. Is this from one of your self-help books, Amy?

0:25.2

I'm Amy. And I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others but your life

0:36.2

isn't supposed to look like hers being your best self means standing firm in your decisions

0:41.7

and always being willing to grow with a purpose.

0:44.6

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

0:51.0

Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

0:56.0

As we start off a New Year, the comparison game comes up so much more often in my experience at least I'm

1:05.7

looking left I'm looking right I'm trying to figure out how can I be the best

1:08.9

version of myself and sometimes it falls into oh is someone else doing something that I want to do?

1:14.2

Maybe I should do a little bit more of what they're doing.

1:16.7

But the trap with this is that their life isn't your life.

1:20.3

Like what they're doing isn't your goal.

1:23.0

Their motivation, their purpose, their why might not be in line with what yours is.

1:28.0

So just as we get started with this, we want you to know that the comparison game, it creeps up. It creeps up when we're not even thinking about it. We have had episodes on this in the past, but today we're going to do a different spin and really talking through several of the main comparison traps that come at us as women, the ones

1:46.7

that Amy and I see over and over again. And the first one is Motherhood.

1:51.9

Amy and I And the first one is motherhood.

1:56.0

Amy and I, we both are mothers, obviously. You guys have been around for a while, you know we're both moms,

1:59.0

but the comparison game can come up in all different aspects of it.

2:02.0

And I think just between looking at... can come up in all different aspects of it.

2:03.0

And I think just between looking at the friends of ours that we have, even looking at Amy and

2:07.8

what her life looks like, following accounts on Instagram, the professional experts, comparison is a thief.

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