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Is Trying To “Better Yourself” Really A Social Media Trap?

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Are we really trying to better ourselves or are we stuck in a social media trap chasing perfection? Let's talk about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're on the Bertia

0:02.0

I'm certainly no motivational speaker

0:04.0

No different than anybody else that's for sure I've got struggles we all have struggles just like you guys do except we have a very public job right so

0:15.0

I don't know anything more than you guys do, but here's what I'm starting to get aware of,

0:17.2

at least in my life, and I want to pass this on to you, Abby.

0:19.6

If you weren't listening a couple of minutes ago,

0:22.3

oh, it's hard to recover from that.

0:24.0

I feel so bad for you, really, I do.

0:26.0

Abby was saying that she's not looking forward to going to her cousin's wedding

0:30.0

this weekend because she has this wedding dress that she fit into a year ago, just tried it on and it has really

0:36.3

done a job on her psyche because you're not fitting into it the same way.

0:40.8

Yeah, I mean, there's no other way to put it other than the fact that like I look bad in it.

0:45.9

And it's a dress that you have to wear.

0:47.8

It's a dress that the bride picked out a year ago.

0:50.1

I bought the size that I thought would fit me this time around and I went to the

0:53.9

Taylor yesterday and I look horrible in it and I'm just if I'm being honest I'm just

0:58.1

not excited to go anymore because I know I'm going to feel bad about myself the whole day

1:02.0

and Abby and people like Abby, who when you look at Abby,

1:07.8

you would say this was part of what you were talking about also

1:10.8

is that when you look like Abby, you don't feel, you can't complain about your

1:14.2

weight, you can't complain about your weight, right?

1:15.0

You don't feel like you're allowed to.

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