How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you compare yourself with others? (Raises hand.) Today we're re-airing one of our favorite conversations with Marci Evans on social comparison theory. If you have ever compared your success, body image, relationship status, friendships or even living situation to anyone else (especially on social media), you HAVE to listen to this episode.

Social comparison theory states that individuals determine their own social and personal worth based on how they stack up against others. In some cases, comparison can be helpful, but more often than not, it’s bad for our wellbeing.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

Which personality types tend to be more prone to comparing (hint: people who are empaths)
What happens to our brains when we make these cross-comparisons
Concrete things you can do to compare less…starting NOW
& MORE

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.4	Happy holidays, everyone!
0:23.7	Jess and I are actually on holiday break right now.
0:27.6	And so we decided to re-air one of our favorite conversations with our colleague,
0:32.4	Dietitian Marcy Evans on social comparison theory, especially during this time of the year.
0:38.0	There are so many like 20-22 recaps about all the great things that happen.
0:43.2	And so I think it could be really easy to fall into that trap of comparing your success,
0:48.3	your body, your relationship status, even your living situation to someone else's.
0:54.0	And so I thought that this was a really timely conversation to wrap up 2022.
0:59.3	We are actually going to be doing a new series come January on habit, how to create habits that
1:06.2	actually last. So stay tuned for that. For now, I'm going to leave you with this episode,
1:11.7	and we'll catch you next week for the first episode of our habit series. Happy New Year!
1:20.8	Welcome to the podcast, Marcy.
1:22.8	Oh my gosh, ladies. I am so honored to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me to come chat with you.
1:29.6	Thank you so much for coming on to talk to us today. So social comparison theory, I want to start
1:34.4	there because I learned a lot going to your presentation at Fancy, and I'm sure most, if not all
1:40.4	of our listeners have no idea what that is. Right. So can you start there like what is social
1:45.3	comparison theory? I am happy to start there. And if your listeners are thinking like, what are they
1:50.8	talking about? Know that I actually was in the same boat. I was actually invited to give this talk
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