Hello everyone. Welcome back to The Gen Z-Gy Girl podcast. My name is Abby Asselin and I am the host of the podcast and so happy you're here if it's your first time and if not, welcome back. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend if you're listening to this right when it's coming out on Monday. I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day, and if anything, spent it giving yourself a little

bit of extra love. I know a lot of my episodes lately, I feel like I've been centered around a lot of

self-love and that kind of thing, so I hope that you really took the time to just love yourself

a little extra, and it doesn't have to be Valentine's Day to do that. You can do that literally

any day you want and that's

totally up to you. So anyways, today I really just felt like talking about being your biggest credit

and self-sabotage. I feel like this kind of is spinoffs of other episodes I have in a way,

but just kind of from the opposite end of things, because I know

I've talked a lot about like self-esteem and like gaining confidence and how I became more

confident and all that kind of stuff, but I never really talked about how being your biggest

critic can really affect you and limit you and just how paralyzing self-sabotage is really and it's something that

I feel like I really struggled with a lot more probably years ago and I mean I still do now but I would

say that it manifested itself in my life a lot more when I was younger like in high school and

early early, just because

that's when my self-esteem and my confidence was the worst. So I naturally was my biggest critic

to another level and I self-sabotage to another level during those times of having a lot less self-esteem and just

not having a lot of mental awareness and all of that kind of stuff. And I just thought that this

would be good to talk about because I feel like lately I've kind of been having more of those

spurts of the little bit of self-sabotage or just being my biggest critic. I find myself telling

myself all of these things that are not true in the slightest and a lot of that just has to do

with being uncomfortable with whatever the situation is in my life. that discomfort sort of results in me telling myself

that I'm not good enough for something or I can't do something or I'm not meant to do this

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