You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo, episode 312.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Well, hello, my friends. Today we are going to talk about the most amazing topic.

We're going to talk about feeling awful.

You're welcome. So many of you are human that listen to the podcast, which means from time to time, you are going to feel awful.

And it's not something I think we talk enough about.

And it's something that I think a lot of us feel shame talking about, right? And shame about feeling awful.

So recently I was talking to one of my friends, and I hadn't talked to her in a while, and I was telling her and sharing some of my business success with her.

And like bring interrupt to speed on how incredible the business is going and how fast our industry is growing and what's been going on for us personally and financially and all of the goodness that is going on in my life.

And a lot of times because we attribute feelings to circumstances, we think, okay, well, all of these amazing external things are going on.

That must mean that you're feeling amazing, right? Because external always matches internal.

And that hasn't been my experience recently. I have been kind of going through the grind emotionally.

And I'm always up for it. I always know that that's part of my human experience.

And I know that sometimes my anxiety is worse than other times. And I don't take issue with it.

I allow for it. And I move towards it. And it's good.

And that's something that she was kind of laughing about is she was like, even when you're going through it, you're like laughing about it.

Even when you're struggling emotionally, it doesn't seem like you're struggling emotionally because of the way that you talk about it in a way that makes me feel like you're going to get through it.

And I think so many of us we like hide feeling bad from other people because we think it means or something wrong with us and that it's something that needs to be fixed.

And so in this podcast, I kind of want to share my experience with feeling awful. And I want to give you all some insight on how you might get better at feeling awful because listen, if you're a human on the planet, it's going to happen.

It's going to happen and it's okay.

There's a big difference between pretending to feel good all the time and like genuinely feeling good about not feeling good.

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