TRIGGERED! When you abandon or betray yourself
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Self-abandonment is really common in our culture. It can take many different forms, but it's often related to denying or suppressing your own needs to act in ways that are deemed acceptable by others.
Our western culture frequently encourages us to move towards this place of self-denial, suppression, and twisting ourselves to fit external expectations and demands. Part of this has to do with being affable, with not creating conflict, with being perceived as a helpful and productive and easygoing person.
In this episode of Triggered, we explore what it means to abandon or betray yourself. I run through some specific examples of self-abandonment and offer suggestions for reclaiming your self-worth and becoming your own ally and advocate.
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Thank you for being here, friend. May you begin to treat yourself with unconditional kindness, love, support, and care. You deserve nothing less.
Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:13.5 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:19.7 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com. |
| 0:24.9 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.8 | 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. |
| 0:42.9 | Self-abandonment is really common in our culture. It can take many different forms, but it's |
| 0:49.0 | often related to denying or suppressing your own needs to act in ways that are deemed acceptable by others. |
| 0:57.0 | Our Western culture, and here I'm speaking really to the culture of the US, frequently encourages |
| 1:04.0 | us to move towards this place of self-denial suppression and twisting ourselves to fit external expectations and demands. |
| 1:14.6 | Part of this has to do with being affable, with being uncomplicated, with not creating conflict, |
| 1:21.4 | with being perceived as helpful and productive and easygoing person, |
| 1:28.3 | or at least putting up that facade |
| 1:31.8 | or having that kind of persona. |
| 1:34.8 | Have you noticed that even in our greetings to each other |
| 1:38.3 | when we're out in the world, |
| 1:40.9 | that so often someone will ask, |
| 1:43.3 | how are you? And the default response is, I'm good or doing good, |
| 1:49.0 | which we sometimes have to utter with discomfort or great effort, because things are not good sometimes, |
| 1:56.8 | or we're not doing good. And yet the cultural expectation is pretty much that we will answer this question in a carefree, |
| 2:05.3 | superficial way. |
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