Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

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Today's episode, we're going to talk about expectations.

We all have them.

We place them on ourselves and others, and they definitely impact all of our experiences.

We all tend to have a different idea of what an expectation is, or whether or not we

are meant to meet the expectations of others.

When so often, we don't actually realize or set time aside to have expectations of ourselves,

or to even begin to separate the expectations that we're chasing after, trying to fulfill

for another, or that we're expecting another to fulfill for us, if those are actually

even aligned with our authentic selves, with our own needs, or are we actually just

subconsciously really self-betraying and self-sabotaging to go essentially people please in a way.

So people pleasing very sneakily can be inserted into this idea of expectations.

So we want to dive in and really just unpack that and have a conversation about what expectations are

since they come up so often in conversation.

I think what you're talking about, Jenna, is really the reality that some of us might not even be

aware that we're placing expectations on ourselves or on someone else, because it's become our

second nature, especially for those people, pleasers out there.

Like, I know I still have moments myself.

I, for a very long time, wasn't even aware what I was doing, that I was carrying an expectation

into more or less all of my experiences, definitely within my relationships,

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