Do you find it a bit hard to believe when people say I love myself?

You might even cringe or think, gee, it must be nice to feel that way?

Well, when Bruno Mars's song Just the Way You Are came out and self-love kind of became a hashtag,

I honestly thought people only set those things to feel better about themselves,

and I had a hard time imagining what that actually feels like but I was at a point where I was so

determined to figure out how to get to self-love and this podcast is meant to get

you there without struggling for so long like I did now if you're anything

like I used to be wow was I a people-pleasing mess?

I couldn't even look the cashier in the eye when ordering McDonald's. And I definitely had no

idea that close to 10 years later, I would be the lead singer of a local rock band, working

behind the scenes of K-pop concerts, and eventually become

a therapist as I am today.

Are you ready to heal your inner child and reclaim your power?

Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang and after nearly a decade of being a trauma therapist, I'm revealing

the exact practical tools to help you overcome people-pleasing and low self-worth.

You can absolutely break the patterns from your childhood and create the

happy life and relationships you never thought possible. Join me on a weekly magical celebration

of your journey into self-love. Welcome to the Inner Child podcast. To help you understand how I ended up here, picture a sad-looking

20-year-old failing my chemistry program trying to please my parents. I'd just gotten back with

an ex-boyfriend who cheated on me and already dumped me twice. One night he stood me up again after texting me the two most dreaded words in the

human language. It's over. And I know that it's not unusual to get dumped, but for me it was like

this familiar sense of shame. Like this was all happening again. And it was like,

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