Yo, today's QOD is, it's happening for you, not to you.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOD of the Day Show.

Today's QOD is throwing back Thursday and we are turning back that clock all the way to episode number six, one of our original episodes of the show with featured speaker, Christine Hasler.

And by the way, happy Independence Day to you.

I hope you have the most wonderful day ever hanging out with friends and family, barbeque and going to the beach watching fireworks or whatever it is that you're going to do.

Have a really good time doing it.

Christine is going to share a story. I love this clip by the way, but she's going to share a story about something that all of us go through, you know, not feeling like we're enough, feeling let down when, you know, life just doesn't meet our expectations, feeling like we're called to do something but just not being fully clear about what that thing is.

So Christine is going to share how she got through these things and how you can too. And you're going to learn about a really, really easy tool that you can put to use today to love yourself more.

You're just Christine.

So like all of you, what I was born, I knew there was nothing wrong with me.

I knew that I was whole and complete and there was nothing I needed to do to earn love or to get external validation.

All of you knew that when you were born and then life happened.

Someone said something, someone left, you got hurt, you felt alone and you started to forget that you're complete and that you're whole and there's nothing wrong with you and you're enough just as you are.

And you start to forget that you're connected to everybody else all around you.

I really started to forget in fourth grade when a bunch of girls started the I hate Christine club, which I was not a member of.

Thank you for the sympathy. I wish you would have been there. You could have been my friend.

But it was a very, very difficult kind of 20 years for me of feeling like something was wrong with me, feeling like I was unlikeable broken in some way.

And like all of us, my ego needed some way to survive, some way to compensate.

Because when we feel less than when we feel hurt, we have to find out another strategy to get the love and the validation that we so desperately long for.

So I call these compensatory strategies.

My particular brand was becoming an overachiever.

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