STOP HATING YOURSELF: Why your worst enemy might live in your own head

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox dive deep into the quiet epidemic of self-hatred. We explore where it really comes from: childhood trauma, rejection, bullying, addiction, neurodivergence, and the survival strategies we learned just to make it through. Whether it's self-sabotage, choosing the wrong people, or never feeling good enough, self-hate often hides in plain sight.

We share our own stories—gambling addiction, self-harm, broken relationships, and shame—and the long, messy road toward finally learning to treat ourselves with compassion. If you’ve ever struggled with that voice in your head that says you’re not enough, this is the episode you need.

We also break down some practical ways to start changing the script: how to recognise your inner critic, track your self-talk, accept compliments without deflecting, and understand that self-hatred is something you learned—which means it’s something you can unlearn.

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0:00.0	Today we are talking about how to stop hating yourself.
0:04.1	A nice cheerful one then for the day.
0:06.4	Hopefully cheerful at the end.
0:08.0	We are going to talk about where self-hatred comes from,
0:11.3	what it actually looks like in adulthood,
0:14.0	and then some practical ways to actually start treating yourself a little bit better.
0:19.0	This is late bloomers.
0:20.3	Well, we are getting our lives together.
0:23.9	Eventually.
0:25.6	So have you been a big self-hater?
0:29.2	Occasionally, yeah.
0:30.6	What was your biggest moments you think of like self-hating
0:34.2	or a time in your life when you hated yourself the most?
0:37.0	That's well easy to answer.
0:38.4	Oh, go on.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:39.2	So it was like pinnacle addictions, like peak addictions.
0:43.8	So to set the scene, you know, I was drinking too much, but my biggest one was gambling
0:49.4	and why I hated myself was a couple of reasons.
0:53.6	One, I didn't have any control.
0:57.3	Like I certainly felt like I didn't have any control.
1:00.2	Like every night I'd be like I need to stop gambling.
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