Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about self-trust.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So what I want to talk about in this episode is why self-trust can be so difficult.

I'm not sure if this is something you've navigated, but a common thing I hear from people

and something I've even navigated quite a bit for myself is not feeling like we have a

trusting relationship with ourselves, not knowing what we can

trust within ourselves. And this is especially true if we've made decisions in the past that have

seemingly led to undesirable outcomes or more pain. It leads us to start questioning what in me is trustworthy.

And can I trust myself to make decisions in this life that will take care of me? And what

does it actually mean for something to take care of you? So that's what I want to drill into here.

And this is why self-trust gets difficult, because there is a lot of noise in the system,

the mind-body system, a lot of thoughts, beliefs, ideas happening all in the mind,

and in the body, a lot of emotional responses, conditioned nervous system responses,

trauma responses, all of which is designed to keep you safe, get your praise,

get you connection, get you love.

And so you have this mind-body system, this human form that is swimming in this world, this planet,

sort of just plopped here, trying to figure out how to get these basic needs met,

and all these learnings that happened along the way.

And it shows up as activation.

It shows up as an agitated system.

We feel it in our body.

We feel it as chaos in our mind.

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