Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara.

And in today's episode, we're going to talk about why you're okay, but it may be time to change.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So the process of growth, personal development, often holds a paradox.

Because in one way, as we've talked a lot about on this podcast, you're okay exactly as you are.

On the deepest level, there's nothing fundamentally wrong about you.

In another way, you might need to make some changes in your life,

and most of us often need to make some changes.

And so when you're born, there's no idea of anything that needs to be fixed.

We could call this your essential okayness.

And it's a pure and beautiful space to inhabit.

And there's huge healing potential in reconnecting to that space, which is why I emphasize it a lot

on this podcast of resting in your innate wholeness or connecting to the part of you that doesn't

have any ideas of things being wrong or needing to be fixed. That part exists deeply within you,

and it's powerful and important.

As you grow though and integrate with the world, which happens from a very early age,

you do need to adapt to certain standards and expectations and ways of relating to the world

and with other people that might not come naturally to you.

At your core, your whole, but you also might not have the slightest idea of how to hold a conversation or how to be productive or how to be patient or even how to thrive in a romantic relationship,

which we don't really get a blueprint for when we're born.

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