817 You Were Born Worthy. So Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Someone from our community recently sent me an email. She didn't understand why she had low self-worth, and she wanted to know if it was something she could change as an adult.
The answer is a resounding YES.
We're going to cover how low self-worth develops, what it looks like when it's running in the background of your life, and what you can do to build something more solid, because building more self-worth requires practice.
Let's start with the premise that we are all born worthy. Simply by virtue of being alive. The work is figuring out what got in the way of that, and how to come back to it.
Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/817
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:05.0 | Today I'm actually created this episode where I'm going to be talking all about |
| 0:10.5 | worthiness because someone from our community wrote in saying, I live a pretty accomplished |
| 0:17.0 | life. |
| 0:17.8 | I still struggle with worthiness. |
| 0:23.4 | So after she told me her story, I started really thinking about how, you know, we can hide in plain sight. You can have a worthiness issue that is |
| 0:29.5 | creating pain, but it cannot look obvious. The same way that how functioning codependency |
| 0:34.8 | doesn't look obvious because a lot of times we are out there |
| 0:38.6 | getting things done in the world. So in this episode, I'm going to be talking all about |
| 0:42.7 | worthiness, why you might struggle from a lack of worthiness. What are the things that cause it? |
| 0:47.8 | What are the symptoms of it? And what are a bunch of things that you can do to build more solid self-worth in your adult life. |
| 0:58.0 | So before we get into it, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:01.3 | If you love the show, please go rate, review, and subscribe an Apple podcast. |
| 1:06.4 | That really helps me because the more people that do that, the more people that do that. |
| 1:09.9 | And I want to say thank you to drama-free tea for this five-star review of the Terry Cole |
| 1:14.3 | Show. |
| 1:14.9 | Words to live by and draw boundaries by. |
| 1:17.5 | Terry is my boundary, sense. |
| 1:19.6 | I've listened to Terry's podcast for four solid months almost every day. |
| 1:24.5 | Several of her episodes have been worth keeping on repeat. |
| 1:27.4 | Terry tells it to you |
| 1:28.2 | straight and has helped me find new ways to relate to myself and others. Well, I love that drama-free |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Terri Cole, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Terri Cole and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.