Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast, the number one Mindset Podcast in the entire world thanks to you guys out

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miss another podcast I assume today I'm gonna talk to you and teach you why you should make more space for your humanness and

I'm going to teach you from my own past struggles because this is something that I really struggle with for a really long time.

And I always like to say it on the podcast.

I am in no sort of way a perfect human.

I am just another flawed individual trying to figure out this whole life thing and as I start to

figure more stuff out I start to share more stuff with you guys I always like to use

myself as the guinea pig and one thing that I learned is that I had picked up a

defense mechanism early in my childhood, my teen years, and I kind of cared with me for a little

while. And one thing that I notice in other people

because the fact that it's like, oh, I can see this in myself,

I know how to work through it,

then I start to see it in other people.

Is that one thing that I notice in this defense

mechanism that we all kind of build in ourselves is that we tend to block out a lot of feelings

and a lot of emotions.

And for me, I blocked out a lot of my feelings and a lot of emotions for years and years and years and you know I think having an

alcoholic father and you know things that came from it and him saying he's going to pick me up sometimes and never showed up.

Stuff that I experienced before the age of 10 before my parents got divorced just kind of

made me start to block out some emotions and I think a lot of people do this. You know then there was him

passing away at 15 years old and like four days later I went back to school and I told nobody. I think I just learned

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