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 trusting your past self.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So we often hear a lot about talking about our future selves. I talk about this on the podcast quite a bit. Future vision for yourself as a way to make change. You can even ask yourself what would the best version of myself do in this moment.

But there's less reflection on the wisdom of your past self.

And often our past self is something that we tend to condemn or see as an unevolved part of us.

But I think this can get problematic post-important decision-making. Have you ever been in a situation, maybe a relationship you left, or a job you left?

Or a decision you had to make that was difficult but felt right.

And then a week goes by, a month goes by, a year goes by.

And things in your life maybe aren't

quite where you want them to be yet. And it causes you to reflect back to that moment and go,

what was I thinking? Did I make the wrong decision? I should have stayed there. And the tendency in these moments is to look

back to what was good. Sometimes it's an honest reflection on what is good. Sometimes it's a distorted

memory of what is good. But we tend to focus on what about that situation that we feel like we're

lacking now. Maybe a sense of security,

stability, some form of joy we were getting from what we were doing. And it can actually

create extra tension in our present moment experience, not trusting our past self. And that's

where I want to offer a different framing here, to actually trust your

past self, to trust that in that moment, given the resources you had, the understanding that was there,

the particular evolution that you were at at this point in your life, but also your gut instinct, your intuition, that something

was saying this can't work or there's something off here or I have to follow a different path.

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