Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscara. And in today's

episode we're going to talk about worthiness, love, and self-acceptance. More to

come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

So through my work over the years, it has become very clear to me that many

people walk around in their lives feeling unworthy, unworthy of love, not able to

accept themselves, not feeling like they're worth self-acceptance or

compassion. And it's one of the biggest things that creates stress and suffering.

And so the usual way of going about this, often subconsciously, is we try to

change ourselves and our circumstances to create a felt sense of worth and love,

the right relationship, the right job, the right living arrangements, all of

which can be useful. But the question I want to pose to you today is how much will you need to

change before you're worthy of love and acceptance? How much will you need to change

before you're worthy of love and acceptance? And this isn't just for those of us that might

really be struggling with self-worth. You might feel for yourself that this isn't something you

think about, but we're all navigating this on some level. It's wired into us to want to feel

a sense of worth, to feel accepted, to feel loved. So even if it doesn't feel like it's that

prevalent, there's a good chance that a lot of your motivations and thoughts and behaviors

are coming from a place of trying to either get more sense of worth or reinforce or maintain

a sense of worth and love and acceptance. So I offer that question again, how much will you

need to change? What will you need to get? What will need to shift before you're worthy of love

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