Mini: Be Okay With You / Spartan MIND 056

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Feeling insecure, struggling with self-esteem, and being unsure of whether you’re good enough are all common issues that can arise in your lifetime. It doesn’t make you broken, it just makes you human. But working hard to cut off the parts of yourself that you don’t like isn’t the best way to go about building up your self-esteem and certainly flies in the face of self-acceptance. Embracing those elements of yourself that you wish were different is a more effective tactic and, in the end, leaves you feeling more confident and whole.

LESSONS:
Wanting to avoid, ignore, or push away altogether the parts of yourself that you don’t like is a common, though ineffective tactic.
Try to embrace and accept the parts of yourself that you don’t like, rather than push them away.
Use a mantra to help yourself embrace who you are.
Integrate positive affirmations into your routine and begin to acknowledge how these parts of yourself actually make you unique and special.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind doc at Spartan
0:10.3	and today we're talking about being okay with you. Yes, you. Now I've worked with a lot of clients in my day and one of the common themes among their struggles is that they are not okay with who they are.
0:26.4	It's not necessarily the unhealthy choices or behaviors that they're engaging in.
0:31.0	They're just struggling in their
0:33.0	relationship with themselves
0:34.0	because they are uncomfortable with who they are.
0:37.0	There are parts of themselves that they don't like,
0:40.0	that they don't want the world to see,
0:41.0	that they don't want to show up.
0:43.5	And so they're working really hard to amputate those parts of themselves.
0:47.8	Well guess what?
0:48.8	Sometimes those parts can't be amputated.
0:51.7	There are parts of ourselves that we do not like and we want to sometimes
0:55.2	cut them off and pretend that they don't exist. Well, they do. And actually if you work more
1:01.0	to embrace those parts of yourself, that's going to serve you better and it's
1:05.1	going to serve your relationship better.
1:07.1	I've also learned in my history of being a psychologist that individuals will sometimes try
1:11.3	to be somebody they're not.
1:12.9	Hey, and listen, I'm seeing this on social media all the time, right?
1:16.6	Instagram individuals who are identifying themselves as a certain way
1:20.5	when that's really not who they are,
1:22.1	or putting out certain pictures when that's really not who they are or putting out certain pictures when
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