This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Melissa. Melissa Bella Rosa with the song Pretend to Be like them. Melissa Bella Rosa with the song Pretend, a song about coming to terms with who she is, who she's been trying to be, and how to develop radical honesty with herself.

Because that's what we're talking about today on the podcast. It's getting honest with you. In my experience, being honest with yourself

is a fundamental part of the personal growth process. Without that self-awareness and, you know, being connected to your personal

truth, it's very difficult to even know in what direction you need to grow, much less do it.

Yet, it can be really hard to be honest with yourself. And it can sometimes even feel threatening to be

honest with yourself. And it's also true that we all have blind spots, things that we don't know,

that we don't even know. So being honest with yourself sounds easy. It's a little bit more

complicated in practice.

And that's why we're talking about how to be honest with yourself today on this episode of the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast.

My guest today is my dear colleague, Josephine Marin.

She works with me at Growing Self. She is a marriage and family

therapist and a relationship coach. But she also works with a lot of individual clients as a

therapist and coach and helps her clients move forward on that path of self-discovery and

authenticity.

And today she's here to join her wisdom and perspective with us.

Thank you, Josephine.

Yeah, thank you so much, Lisa, for having me on.

I'm very excited to be here today and to talk about this topic with you.

Me too.

Well, it's an important topic.

And I really wanted to talk with you about this because,

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