Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. Now, on to the episode.

You've likely experienced at some point in your interactions with other humans the situation of

someone trying to prove you wrong. This can happen, of course, within families and other groups of people

when you hold one perspective or viewpoint and someone else holds a very different perspective.

I think many of us experienced this, at least in the U.S., very significantly during the last U.S. presidential election, which was

extremely polarizing. And I think we also experienced this with the COVID pandemic as people

and families and friend groups and coworkers developed different points of view about what was really happening. And in many cases,

there were very, very strong disagreements and relationships and friendships and friendships

coming to an end if we found it impossible to reconcile our values and beliefs with those of other people around us.

And of course, that is natural.

It sometimes happens in the course of human life and interacting with others.

This situation of someone trying to prove you wrong can also happen whenever you put yourself out there.

And that's really what we're going to be talking about today, especially if you are on social media,

if you are creating content of any kind or art, or putting your creations out into the world,

or if you have political or cultural or spiritual

opinions and you put those opinions and ideas out there, all of these situations open you up

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