EP 666: Reader’s Question - How To Not Live a Life of Regret and Comparison

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Ever feel like your past mistakes hold you back and comparing yourself to others steals your joy? You’re not alone. That's why this episode takes us into the vault of This Naked Mind's exclusive PATH 365 community, where Annie Grace throws open the doors to real talk and raw questions. Today, one member grapples with how to not live a life of regret and comparison. Sound familiar? Buckle up, because Annie's got your back with powerful insights, personal stories, and practical tools to rewrite your past, ditch the comparison game, and finally step into a future filled with acceptance and (gasp!) joy.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you’re ready to see how This Naked Mind can help you on your personal health and wellness journey and wanna learn more. Go to ThisNakedMindpodcast.com to learn more. Again, that’s ThisNakedMindpodcast.com. We have all of our free resources, programs, social links, and more available for you there. Plus, if you have your own Naked Life Story, you can submit it there as well. Until next week, stay curious.

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0:00.0	Hey there!
0:05.0	Every month Annie has a call with our Path 365 members and answers their questions.
0:09.5	She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions, what kinds of tips and
0:13.4	advice she has for addressing difficult situations, how to deal with cravings, and
0:16.9	so much more. Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path
0:20.4	members. Hey Annie, I've got two things on my mind today.
0:27.0	I feel so much regret for my past and so much comparison going on with myself and others on this journey.
0:40.0	Do you have any advice for me?
0:42.0	I think that one of the things that I'm becoming more and more present to in my own life,
0:46.7	and it's just fascinating, and it's so obvious when you say it this way, it's so obvious, but it's one of these so obvious things that we actually don't really get. And it's that the future and the past don't actually exist anywhere but in our own minds right now.
1:04.0	So, and the amazing thing about that when we really start to get and understand that
1:11.0	is that we can actually tell ourselves a different story about our past.
1:15.0	And I've experienced this for myself where I've told myself, you know, like so much regret,
1:21.0	especially with my kids,
1:23.4	just certain situations where I just felt so much regret
1:26.0	about how I behaved with them when I was drinking
1:29.0	or different things that happened.
1:31.0	And as I've become more and more present to this, I was telling this story, just this just happened like a week ago, but my 15-year-old came to a home and he wanted to talk about something and it's like one of those things where he wants to talk, but then he pulls back, then he wants to talk and he pulls back and he's anyway I just I was just there with him
1:53.2	listening to music with him turns out that one of his close friends had brought a
1:57.8	coffee cup full of tequila to school and all the kids at the table were drinking it except my son and and my son was like in so
2:11.5	much anger towards this kid and I know this is going to sound
2:15.2	really radical considering kind of who I am, but as he was telling me about how
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