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 mascara 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 is

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 then the body a lot of emotional responses

condition nervous system responses trauma responses all of which is designed to

keep you safe get you 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 shows up as an agitated system we feel it in our body we

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