Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of In Bloom Podcast. My name is Abby Asselin, if you're new here,

and I'm the host of this podcast. This week, we're going to be talking about how to get out of your own way.

And I really wanted to do this episode because I feel like, as you guys know, I feel like if you've been listening to episodes throughout this entire year, it's just been a very

big year of self-discovery and just like really healing and just figuring a lot of stuff out about

myself. But there's this thing that kind of comes with learning new things about yourself and self-discovery and

growing and healing. And that is getting out of your own way because it can be really hard when

you start having all these realizations about yourself and who you actually are and like what

you actually care about. And you're so married to the idea of things needing

to be the way they always have been and just so connected with your old self that you sort of

subconsciously and accidentally get in your own way as you try to transition to, you know, a new version of yourself and adopt

like habits and practices and lifestyles that more so align with all the things that you've learned

and just all the ways you've grown and how you've healed and everything.

And I feel like I have noticed

this in the last few months with myself where I'm like, okay, I've really been working on this

and I feel like I've grown a lot in this area and I'm like healing from whatever it is. And then I'm like,

okay, well, now that we've like gotten through all of that I am feeling like

this itch and this desire to just step into something bigger and like greater and the side of me

that doesn't want to get uncomfortable again and just wants to kind of like keep things

the way they are because of not wanting to be uncomfortable and just because it's like what I know

right now it sort of results in me getting in my own way to where I can't I'm like literally

preventing myself from stepping into,

you know, the new version of myself that I'm like trying to be after I've done all of this

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