Hello, dear listeners and welcome to Inner Work of Spiritual Growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer and English PhD, who taught college

for nine years before transitioning to spiritual work full-time.

I now specialize in helping type A and highly sensitive women, including empaths,

let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies.

To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefield healing at gmail.com.

As always, those links will be in the show notes.

And now, on to the show.

Hi, and welcome to the podcast.

Today we're getting right into this episode on female competition, insecurity, and self-worth.

So let me set the scene for you. You're going about your day, you're blissfully happy, or at least, you know, you're experiencing a solid level of happiness. And then, bam.

You read a post on social media, maybe on Instagram,

or you see someone on Facebook recommending someone else's blog,

or you see that someone who does something similar to your work,

say another tarot reader or an intuitive coach or a wellness coach has been featured on one of your

favorite podcasts and then the nausea sets in you feel sick to your stomach you feel as though you've been

punched this wave of nauseatingly warm sticky insecurity rises up through your stomach and you need to sit down.

Your mind starts racing. How come this other person was featured and you weren't?

How come she has achieved this milestone or this success and you haven't?

What are you doing wrong? So your inner critic starts to chime in.

You're not good enough. You're not doing enough. Everyone else is better than you. You have nothing

original, worthwhile, or useful to say. You are a failure. You are nothing. And then you feel shitty for the rest of the day.

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