We have to be willing to take care of our bodies while we're raising our kids,

while we are navigating a change in our work status, while we are learning to care for our aging

parents. So during these complicated life events, we still have to be able to take care of

ourselves. Welcome back to the Fasting Method podcast.

This is Coach Terry Lance, and I'm here solo today.

I am here to talk about one of the topics that I think is probably nearest and dearest for most of us in this journey.

And probably one that frustrates most of us.

And that is self-sabotage. Now, I know I've talked about this in various forms and various

places, but today I wanted to talk a little bit about self-sabotage, and then I wanted to go over three examples of probably the ways that I see it happening most often in the TFM community and with the clients that I work with.

Anytime I talk to you all about a topic like this, I always go back and look up the definition of the term.

Because oftentimes I mean something when I say a term, you mean something else when you hear me say it,

and so I just wanted to give us a definition.

So in an article in psychology today, it says that self-sabotage is behavior

that creates problems in daily life and interferes with long-standing goals. It goes on to say

the most common self-sabotaging behaviors include procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol,

comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting.

Now, these are pretty important categories, and I found it very interesting in a general article about self-sabotage in the field of

psychology, these were the target points that they most often see self-sabotage behaviors.

How fitting is that for us?

So let's talk a little bit about three ways that I see this happening so often. And for sure,

I want all of you to know these are not the only three. We could spend many episodes going through

examples of self-sabotage. But these are the three I wanted to address today.

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