Hey guys, it's Rach. Welcome to your Sunday pep talk. Today, I want to dive into something I'm noticing, something I feel like maybe one of you or many of you need to hear today because it's quietly stealing your joy. And you know what? It's not just you. It's probably all of us.

We are out here chasing approval.

We are chasing approval like it's oxygen.

We are begging for validation from people who barely know us or worse people who do know us but still don't know us

they don't see us clearly this looks like refreshing your social media to see how many likes your post got.

It looks like obsessively checking your phone to see if they texted you back.

It looks like bending over backwards to get invited, to get chosen, to get noticed, to get followed, to get complimented, to get picked.

Here is the truth bomb that you maybe need to hear today.

You are chasing something outside yourself that can only ever be built inside yourself. We've all done it. We have all

looked for our worth in our relationship status. We have looked for affirmation in someone else's reaction to us.

We've looked for meaning in our friend group, our follower count, whether or not the other kids at school or work think that we're cool.

Can I big sister you? Can I lovingly remind you that validation that comes from other people

is only ever temporary. It's conditional. It's fickle. And worst of all, babe, it's out of your control.

You don't control whether they like you.

You can't control whether they see your value.

You can't control whether they approve of your choices.

So why are you giving away your peace, your energy, your power to people whose opinions are not rooted in your truth?

I want to offer you this instead. Your worth is not up for debate.

You don't need permission to be valuable.

You don't need applause to matter.

You can stop chasing and start building.

Because when you build self-worth from the inside out, no one can take it away.

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